Anthropic lets users connect more apps to Claude

Anthropically Thursday launched A new way of connecting applications and tools with his AI Chatbot Claude, as well as an expanded “deep exploration” capacity that allows Claude to search the web, company accounts and more.

The new feature of the App Connection, called integration and expanded deep research tool, called Advanced Research, are available in Beta for Claude Max, team and business plans for anthropic, and soon Pro. In related news, Anthropopi also increased the restrictions on the rate for its coding tools, Claude codefor maximum customers.

Integration and advanced research are part of an anthropic effort to keep up with competitive chatbots such as Google’s twins and Openi’s Chatgpt. Anthropically allegedly He hopes to reach $ 34.5 billion in revenue in 2027, and although this is sure production entryHe has to go a long way. Anthony anthropic revenue was about $ 1.4 billion in early March, According to one report.

Integrations are based on a company MCP Protocolwhich allows AI models to draw data from sources such as business tools to fulfill the tasks as well as from the storage of content and environment for the development of applications. Integrations are touched by MCP to allow developers to create and host app server that improve Claude’s capabilities and allow users to discover and connect these servers with Claude.

“When you connect your tools with Claude, he gets a deep context about your work – understanding the history of projects, the status of tasks and organizational knowledge – and can take action on each surface.” wrote anthropic in a blog post.

For starters, there are a number of integration of anthropic partners, including Atlasian, Zupier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Square and Paypal. Each expands what Claude can do. For example, Atlasian integration allows Claud to summarize and create pages at Atlasian’s CONFLUENCE job software, while Zappier’s integration allows Claud to associate with former APP Automation work.

As for the other new Claude features that runs today, advanced research, allows Claud to crawl hundreds of “internal and external sources to provide what Anthrops describe as a” comprehensive “topic at any five to 45 minutes. Advanced research can use new extended Claude connectors, says Anthropic, to search through I-Kada integrations use the Claude Desktop application on MacOS or Windows-Local Drives related to the MCP.

“With its new ability to do more complex research, available when you switch to the research button, Claude breaks down your request to smaller parts, exploring each deep before compiling a comprehensive report,” the anthropic continued in the blog post. “When Claude includes information from the source, it provides clear quotes that are connected directly to the original material.”

Recently, a raft of deep research tools was launched over chatbot such as twins, Microsoft’s Copilot and Xai’s Grok. The ride is a “explanation” of AI models, which have the ability to think through the problems and verifying the facts of probably important for conducting detailed research on a topic.

Anthropic’s research tool was among the faster tools in the deep research category, and it took about a minute to compile a report. But the results were shallow, partly because the research did not use the explanation model.