00:00 Speaker A

Anthropic debuted version of its Claude co-work agentic AI platform. Break down this service for us.

00:04 Speaker B

Yeah, this is basically Claude co-work but on the go. So, uh usually you would have it, you’d have it on your laptop or something and you would have to just say, okay, leave my laptop open, hope it doesn’t go to sleep and then co-work continues to work in the background. This means now you can take it, use it on the go. If your device is offline, that’s fine. You can pick it up on on the web, you can pick it up on your phone, give it commands there. You’re still going to do the base the the big stuff on your desktop or laptop, whatever. Um you but you can still work with it remotely and that’s an important part here. And I think, you know, when it it comes to these kinds of services, it it’s about the access, right? We think so much now about apps and how we can use them, you know, services wherever we want. There’s oh, there’s an app, but these are still brand new, the way these kind of agents work. And so they didn’t come out of the box with apps right away. So we’re kind of just building up that whole ecosystem and that’s what we’re seeing with this.

00:53 Speaker A

I thought what how they how the company talked about what the service is being used for was also interesting. In other words how the sort of the narrative shifted, like it’s not replacing workers, it’s more it’s more about helping workers sort of, you know, eliminate the kind of boring busy work.

01:07 Speaker B

Yeah, it’s it’s kind of this this rhetoric kind of change that we’re seeing in AI overall with some of these companies, whether that’s Open AI, Microsoft, uh Anthropic. and they kind of refer to it as the work around the work. So the stuff that you don’t necessarily want to do.

01:25 Speaker A

The work around the work.

01:26 Speaker B

Yeah, and that’s I mean, that’s not a bad way of selling that, right? And it comes, you know, we’ve heard so much about how AI was going to destroy jobs from these companies, you know, it’s going to, you know, jobs are going to, you know, go away. We’re going to have to find ways to to reskill folks. I don’t think that’s changed. I, you know, I think that there will still be jobs that are lost, whether it’s this, you know, job apocalypse that originally was discussed, I mean, maybe not, but, you know, this feels as though they’re trying to temper that a little bit. Could it be because people are so upset about AI and they’re protesting data centers everywhere? Could it be because there’s actually no, you know, massive, you know, uh uh kind of existential threat to every uh uh, you know, white collar job out there? Maybe. But I think it’s there’s definitely something in the middle there is where this sits, where it’s, you know, okay, it’s not going to take every single job that you ever heard of, but it’s it’s not going to be, you know, everyone’s favorite dish if it does come for their jobs.