Anthropic is launching Claude apps for Mac and Windows today in public beta, which — as Anthropic writes in a blog post — “brings Claude’s capabilities directly to your preferred work environment.” These capabilities, to be clear, don’t include Anthropic’s recently announced Computer Use feature, which allows the company’s newest flagship model, an upgraded version of Claude 3.5 Sonnet, to perform tasks on your PC.
The desktop apps are available both for free Claude users and users subscribed to Anthropic’s premium plans.
Anthropic also released a dictation tool for Claude. However, this feature is currently not available in the new desktop apps. On iOS, Android, and iPadOS, users can record and upload a message up to 10 minutes in length to have Claude transcribe and respond to it. To be clear, this isn’t a conversation mode. Dictation is more akin to sending a voice message.
The new features arrive as Anthropic is reportedly raising billions of dollars at an over-$40-billion valuation. It has a vested interest, it goes without saying, in making Claude competitive with rivals like OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
