Claude Cowork expands as shared AI infrastructure for teams

3 days ago7 min read

Anthropic's latest expansion of Claude Cowork, rolling out to Team and Enterprise users, marks a subtle but significant evolution in how AI is being woven into the fabric of organizational work. This move is less about a flashy new feature and more a strategic pivot, reframing Claude from a transient chatbot into a persistent, collaborative workspace.It’s a recognition of a trend we’ve seen emerging: tools built for developers, like Claude Code, are being co-opted by broader teams for asynchronous coordination, documentation, and task management. The real story here is the shift towards shared AI infrastructure.Cowork creates a space where context, files, and workflows live beyond a single chat session, aligning more closely with how teams actually operate than the one-off interactions that have dominated the AI landscape. However, Anthropic’s silence on key questions—like whether projects are transferable between users or what happens to AI-generated work when an employee departs—leaves critical gaps for enterprises considering this as a true system of record.These aren't minor details; they are central to the governance, ownership, and continuity challenges organizations face as they move AI from experimental pilots into core production workflows. The new features, like @-mentioning projects for context and live screenshots in Chrome, are practical steps that reinforce this infrastructure role, reducing context-switching and enabling smoother task handoffs.This trajectory mirrors the early days of cloud collaboration platforms, where the shift from personal documents to shared, living workspaces fundamentally changed productivity. Claude Cowork, still in research preview, represents Anthropic’s bet that the future of enterprise AI isn't in isolated queries, but in embedded, persistent environments that become the substrate for ongoing work.

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