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Anthropic tiptoes into MS Office territory
Anthropic has introduced three new types of artifacts that show the company tiptoeing into the office productivity market long dominated by Microsoft and Google.
On Tuesday, the Claudefather unveiled Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards, and Claude Data, and promised the imminent arrival of Claude Meetings. These artifact types join existing ones – Docs, Slides, Design, and Motion – to form a nascent Claude-dependent productivity suite. Anthropic initially used the term artifacts to refer to shareable AI-based interactive tools, like dynamic charts.
But the scope of the term has been stretched to cover specific artifact types, which refer to what traditionalists might take to mean files associated with specific hosted applications. "An artifact is anything Claude makes for you that you'd put in front of someone: a design, a deck, a document, a dashboard, or a small interactive tool," the company explains. The key thing that distinguishes an artifact from a file is that users are meant to interact with artifacts through Claude, rather than storing and transferring them independently.
