Anthropic’s Claude can now generate invoices on PayPal and analyze gross sales on Square

Anthropic’s Claude can now assign duties on Asana, generate invoices on PayPal, analyze gross sales on Square and carry out different tasks throughout trade apps.

The integrations introduced on Thursday mark the following segment for Claude, which has thus far been in a position to make use of to be had knowledge to tell solutions to consumer queries. As generative synthetic intelligence impulsively advances, Claude is now taking movements on a consumer’s behalf throughout a spread of labor programs, akin to Zapier, Plaid, Atlassian’s JIRA and extra.

“You tell Claude what needs to be done, and it can execute those actions across your different business tools,” an Anthropic spokesperson mentioned. The characteristic is recently to be had at the corporate’s Max, Team and Enterprise plans, with Pro coming quickly.

Anthropic mentioned there is additionally a Zapier integration that may permit Claude customers to draft and ship Slack messages on their accounts, however there is not any direct Slack integration but.

Anthropic, based by way of former OpenAI analysis executives, introduced Claude in March 2023. Two years later the corporate closed its newest investment spherical at a $61.5 billion valuation.

Annualized earnings lately climbed to $2 billion, the corporate showed. That’s up from $1 billion in December, which was once a couple of tenfold building up from a 12 months previous. Revenue leader Kate Jensen mentioned the selection of shoppers spending greater than $100,000 every year with Anthropic jumped eightfold from a 12 months in the past.

Jensen mentioned in an interview that a lot of the expansion is coming from Claude’s endeavor and coding companies. Software distributors like Snowflake and Salesforce are development programs on most sensible of Claude, whilst insurers are the usage of it to assist with underwriting and production companies are depending on it to assist modernize their provide chains. In well being care, companies are the usage of Claude for paintings on drug discovery.

“So many big enterprises have 15 different [coding] languages powering all of their core systems and products, and they’re dying to modernize all of that code,” Jensen mentioned. “It’s coding plus enterprise that really come together and create that special recipe for growth.”

Like ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Claude has exploded in recognition as companies rush to include generative AI chatbots throughout gross sales, advertising and marketing and customer support purposes. In addition to its endeavor trade, Anthropic may be going after customers, particularly energy customers, with a $100 to $200 per thirty days subscription that it introduced remaining month.

Also on Thursday, Anthropic debuted its Advanced Research software, which permits Claude to put in writing longer and extra complete analysis stories after looking out the internet, a consumer’s Google Workspace and different hooked up apps. The characteristic completes analysis stories inside about 5 to 45 mins.

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