Anthropic on Tuesday launched Claude Cowork on mobile and web, transforming the tool from a desktop-only agent into a cross-device platform. The company positions it as a bridge between the developer-centric world of AI coding agents and the broader market of knowledge workers.
The rollout begins in beta with Max subscribers before expanding to other plans. Users can start tasks on a laptop, have them continue autonomously in the background, and review results from a phone — even after closing the app entirely. "Your work goes everywhere with you, and keeps going without you," Anthropic writes in its announcement.
Alongside the mobile launch, the firm published usage data from 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions sampled between May 11 and May 31, drawn from more than 600,000 organizations. The numbers reveal that the overwhelming majority of what people do with Cowork has nothing to do with writing software, cutting against the dominant enterprise AI narrative that emphasizes coding use cases.
This strategic inflection signals Anthropic's push to capture a larger slice of the knowledge-worker market, where competitors like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini already operate. By enabling persistence across devices and autonomous background execution, the company aims to differentiate on continuity rather than just raw coding ability.
A caveat: the usage data comes from the desktop-only period and may shift once mobile users, who tend to consume rather than generate content, join the platform. The sample, though large, may not represent the full diversity of enterprise workflows.