- You can now run Claude Cowork in the cloud, from the web or mobile
- Knowledge work now accounts for around half of all Cowork sessions
- Traditional local Cowork sessions are still supported
Days after reports surfaced that Anthropic could be bringing Claude Cowork to its mobile app, the company has gone one further – users can now start, monitor and complete their agentic workflows from the mobile app and a dedicated web portal.
The upgrade is rolling out in beta now for Claude Max subscribers, but the company has plans to bring the functionality to more plans as rollout continues.
As part of the upgrade, Cowork sessions will also run in the cloud by default – another beta introduction that means workflows can continue even once a PC goes offline or shuts down.
Claude Cowork can now be used virtually anywhere
Because the AI agent can run autonomously across things like files and documents, emails and calendars, and other connected apps, many users mostly left Cowork to run independently. However because it ran locally, it required users to keep their desktop session active even when they stepped away.
Now, scheduled work no longer requires a device to remain online – though users can still choose to run Cowork locally when access to local files is required, for example.
As for why Claude Cowork is being used, Anthropic has revealed that the autonomous agent is mostly being used among knowledge workers despite initially being targeted at coders. "Pulling scattered updates into a single report, building onboarding checklists and reconciling spreadsheets" account for the largest chunk, at around 33% of all use cases across Anthropic's analysis of 1.2 million sessions.
Content creation and copywriting (16%) came next, with software development (9%) and DevOps and infrastructure (7%) actually only accounting for much smaller proportions.
With knowledge work now accounting for nearly half of all Claude Cowork sessions, the company's research shows agentic AI emerging as an everyday work colleague. Though the company didn't indicate how, or whether, this shift in behavior might impact its pipeline, a shift away from coding as a primary use case could evolve Cowork in different ways to how we might have imagined.
