Anthropic's AI-powered chatbot, Claude, now has desktop apps.
Anthropic is today launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows in public beta, which, as Anthropic writes in a blog post, “brings Claude's features on to your favorite work environment.” To be clear, these features don’t include Anthropic's recently announced Computer Usage feature, which allows the corporate's latest flagship model, an updated version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, to perform tasks in your PC.
The desktop apps can be found to each free Claude users and users subscribed to Anthropic's premium plans.
Anthropic has also released a dictation tool for Claude. However, this feature is currently not available in the brand new desktop apps. On iOS, Android, and iPadOS, users can record and upload a message as much as 10 minutes long for Claude to transcribe and reply to. Note that this is just not a real-time conversation mode. Dictation is more just like sending a voice message.
The latest features come like Anthropic allegedly Raising billions of dollars at a valuation of over $40 billion. There is, in fact, a vested interest in making Claude competitive with competitors like OpenAI's ChatGPT.
