Artificial intelligence · January 2026

Claude Cowork

Claude Code's agent loop, opened up to people who do not code.

Anthropic brought the Claude Code agent into its desktop app so it could read, edit and create files in a sandboxed folder for everyday knowledge work. The team built it in about a week and a half, largely with Claude Code itself.

See it in the living tree Wikipedia Source

Arcs above join it to what it stood on, arcs below to what it led to. The bar places this stretch on the tree's whole timeline.

What it built on 2

Claude Code 2025
Computer use agents 2024

Watch

Introducing Cowork: Claude Code for the rest of your workAnthropic · YouTube

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)