By Jeffrey Dastin<\/p>\n
June 23 (Reuters) – Anthropic on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence agent inside Salesforce’s Slack app that can work alongside employees \u200cin group chats, deepening its push into the enterprise market \u200cthat has emerged as a key battleground for AI startups.<\/p>\n
Called Claude Tag, the tool lets users \u200bsummon the company’s AI agent into a Slack thread by typing @Claude, where it can read conversations, break down tasks and proactively flag relevant updates across an organization without being asked.<\/p>\n
The agent, which will retain context over time, is available \u200cin research preview to \u2060Claude Enterprise and Team customers, with plans to expand to other platforms, Anthropic said.<\/p>\n
The move is the latest by Anthropic \u2060to build on strong early demand for its AI tools from businesses, which has helped push up its valuation to $965 billion, surpassing that of OpenAI.<\/p>\n
Anthropic said \u200badministrators can \u200btightly control the data and tools \u200bthat Claude Tag can access \u200cin each channel, helping protect sensitive information.<\/p>\n
Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code, said the AI program was a step apart from prior announcements because it would take action proactively in any given Slack channel, and multiple people could interact with it.<\/p>\n
“A lot of the capabilities did exist, but \u200cactually the form factor of being able \u200bto tag it the same way that \u200byou would a coworker is \u200breally powerful,” Wu told Reuters.<\/p>\n
For instance, Wu said she gave \u200cher own Claude Tag access to \u200bGmail so it \u200breads her messages, flags when an important person writes to her, and then posts to her on Slack, where she said she is \u200bmore responsive.<\/p>\n
Anthropic is working \u200cto bring this capability to other platforms in the coming weeks, \u200bshe said.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Jeffrey Dastin in San Francisco and Anhata Rooprai \u200bin Bengaluru; Editing by Anil D’Silva)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Jeffrey Dastin June 23 (Reuters) – Anthropic on Tuesday launched an artificial intelligence agent inside Salesforce’s Slack…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,3154,27189,182,24011,45143,45142],"class_list":["post-83372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anthropic","tag-anthropic","tag-anthropic-claude","tag-artificial-intelligence-agent","tag-claude","tag-claude-enterprise","tag-claude-tag","tag-slack-app"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}