Claude AI (artificial intelligence) has received a significant update, allowing users to complete tasks with third-party tools and tasks without having to leave their conversation.
The AI assistant becomes the first of its kind to support other workflows and the platform also has other platform offerings.
Here’s everything you need to know about Claude and its most recent update.
What is Claude?
Claude is an AI assistant developed by American AI safety and research company Anthropic.
It's similar in purpose to OpenAI's ChatGPT, but built with a strong emphasis on AI alignment and safety. It can answer questions, write essays, summarise content, generate code, and more.
First launched in March 2023, the AI assistant has received several updates throughout the years.
What is new with Claude?
Claude has recently received new integrations allowing it to work directly with several popular software tools including Canva, Notion, Stripe, Figma, Prisma and Socket.
According to Claude’s website, you can now transform creative briefs into Canva social media posts, access Stripe customer data and payment information, turn Figma files into production-ready code and turn Claude discussions into organised Notion roadmaps.
With the new Claude tool directory, Claude can now look at the same information as you to assist you, so you don't have to explain what you want each time you want to use those tools.
The majority of AI interactions up to this point have involved copying and pasting every detail from your project management application, elaborating on what's crucial, elucidating the meaning of each assignment, and verifying that the AI understood.
You can now simply ask it to complete the task, and Claude will handle it by retrieving the necessary data straight from the appropriate tool.
The Model Context Protocol, or MCP, is the technology that powers these interactions.
In other words, Claude doesn't require a comprehensive instruction to comprehend and utilise the tools you utilise. Claude only has to connect an app once to gain secure, restricted access to the pertinent data it contains.
It only reads the information required to assist you with the task at hand; it doesn't read your entire inbox or download your bank history.
You can connect any apps you now use by going to Claude's tool directory. You can access external app connections like Stripe and Notion if you have a premium Claude plan. The Claude desktop app offers desktop integrations such as Figma and Socket.
Similar efforts are being made by other AI technologies. Google's Gemini appears in Gmail and Docs. Word and Excel come pre-installed with Microsoft Copilot. Rather than integrating the AI directly into such apps, Claude's approach focusses more on connecting the AI to what you already do.
