Anthropic launches Claude Cowork with enterprise plugin marketplace for Excel, PowerPoint, and finance tools

Anthropic rolled out a sweeping update to Claude Cowork, its AI productivity platform for knowledge workers, adding a private plugin marketplace, prebuilt templates for HR, finance, engineering, and design, plus native integrations with Excel and PowerPoint. Enterprise admins can connect private GitHub repos as plugin sources and control employee access. The launch positions Claude as a direct competitor to Microsoft Copilot in office productivity. Anthropic's head of product said Cowork "goes beyond drafts and suggestions" to deliver "actual completed projects and deliverables," aiming to replicate Claude Code's impact on developers for the broader enterprise workforce.

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