Anthropic Launches Claude Cowork, Bringing Agentic AI to Non-Technical Users

Summary

Anthropic launched Claude Cowork on January 12-13, 2026, a general-purpose AI agent that can manipulate, read, analyze, and create files on a user's computer. Described by Anthropic as "Claude Code for the rest of your work," Cowork extends the capabilities of the company's popular developer tool to non-technical users. The product launched as a research preview available to Max subscribers on $100-$200/month plans, with access later expanded to Pro subscribers ($20/month) on January 16. Use ca