Anthropic has expanded its Claude Cowork artificial intelligence agent to mobile devices and the web, enabling users to assign tasks, track progress, and review completed work without needing to keep a desktop application running. The company originally introduced Claude Cowork as a desktop application in January, and beta access is now being rolled out through the web and the Claude applications for iOS and Android, initially for Max subscribers. The move extends the availability of Anthropic’s AI productivity platform and reflects the growing demand for artificial intelligence tools that can assist users across multiple devices and work environments.
According to Anthropic, users can initiate a task from their desktop and continue monitoring it through their smartphones while the AI agent works in the background. The system can continue processing assigned work even after a laptop is closed, and scheduled tasks can run without any device remaining online. The company said the AI agent is also capable of notifying users when human input is required. In such situations, Claude Cowork can send questions directly to a user’s phone, allowing additional instructions or task adjustments while the process continues. Anthropic noted that users are still expected to review and approve completed work before taking any final action. The company illustrated the feature with an example in which a user schedules client preparation for early morning hours, allowing the AI system to review email conversations, analyze transcripts and recent news, create briefing materials, and draft follow up communications without sending them automatically.
While mobile and web access significantly broaden the availability of the platform, Anthropic stated that the desktop application will remain the preferred option for more complex work because it can directly access local files and browser content. The company is also integrating traditional Claude conversations and Cowork tasks into a unified interface on both desktop and web platforms. Files and projects generated by the AI assistant will remain available across different environments, allowing users to move seamlessly between devices. On mobile devices, Cowork can be accessed through the sidebar of the Claude application, giving users the ability to interact with the AI assistant from virtually anywhere.
The expansion also highlights Anthropic’s broader strategy of positioning Cowork as an administrative and productivity focused AI assistant rather than a tool limited to software development tasks. The platform is designed to work across files, email systems, calendars, messaging applications, web resources, and other connected services until assigned tasks are completed. Anthropic also released data from an analysis of 1.2 million anonymized and aggregated Cowork sessions across more than 600,000 organizations during the final two weeks of May. The study found that business process operations represented the largest category of usage at 33.4 percent, including tasks such as preparing reports, organizing onboarding activities, and reconciling spreadsheets. Content creation and copywriting accounted for 16.4 percent of activity, while software development represented only 8.7 percent of total usage. According to the company, more than 90 percent of Cowork activity involved tasks outside software development, indicating that organizations are increasingly using AI agents to manage administrative and knowledge based work that supports everyday business operations.
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