Anthropic expands Claude Cowork to mobile and web

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web Tuesday, expanding a tool that has become the company's bridge between AI coding agents and the much larger market of knowledge workers.

The rollout, beginning in beta for Max subscribers, marks a strategic shift for Anthropic. It transforms Cowork from a desktop-only agent into a cross-device platform where tasks can begin on a laptop, continue autonomously in the background, and be reviewed from a phone, even after the user has closed the app.

Alongside the mobile launch, Anthropic published usage data from 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions sampled in May. The data indicates that the overwhelming majority of user activities are not related to software development. Business processes and operations, tasks like compiling reports and reconciling spreadsheets, accounted for 33.4% of all sessions. Content creation and copywriting were second at 16.4%.

Software development, by contrast, accounted for just 8.7%. Anthropic describes these dominant use cases as "the work around the work" – tasks that support project advancement and keep businesses running. The new mobile and web expansion enables task synchronization across devices and autonomous background execution.

The company's strategy is to target the vastly larger population of professionals whose work involves creating, organizing, and communicating information rather than writing code. Claude Code remains the tool for developers.