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Anthropic launches Claude Tag, a Slack-based AI assistant designed to work like a shared team employee, as the company courts enterprise customers ahead of a likely IPO.

Fortune AI6h ago3 min read
Anthropic launches Claude Tag, a Slack-based AI assistant designed to work like a shared team employee, as the company courts enterprise customers ahead of a likely IPO.

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  • What happened

    Anthropic released Claude Tag, a new version of its Claude chatbot that operates within Slack and breaks down tasks into stages to complete them independently. The tool lets all employees in a company collaborate with the same Claude identity and hand off partially finished work to each other. Within Anthropic's own product team, Claude Tag is already approving and incorporating 65% of code changes submitted.

  • Why it matters

    Large organizations struggle to embed AI into their day-to-day workflows due to data silos, employee training gaps, and concerns about sensitive data leaks. Claude Tag addresses these friction points by embedding AI where teams already work (Slack) and letting administrators tightly control which tools, information, and channels each Claude instance can access—for example, preventing HR data from reaching engineering teams. According to Ramp's May AI Index, Anthropic has just pulled ahead of OpenAI in business adoption for the first time, with 34.4% of firms paying for its services compared to OpenAI's 32.3%, driven largely by its agentic coding tool Claude Code.

  • What to watch

    Claude Tag will initially roll out as a research preview on Slack for Claude Enterprise and Claude Team users, with plans to expand access later. Administrators can also set spending limits on tokens both per channel and organization-wide, and the product includes an ambient behavior feature that allows the bot to proactively update employees and follow up on forgotten tasks.

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