Claude can now do the Tedious Grunt Work of Creating Files for You.
On tuesday, anthropic shared a new feature for claude where users can ask it to create excel sporesheets, powerpoints, word documents, and pdfs directly with the chat. The new capability is available as a preview for claude max, team, and enterprise subscribers, and anthropic said it would be rolling out to claude pro users in the coming
Claude’s ability to create and edit files on the user’s behhalf is an example of agentic ai, a term that the industry is buzzing about. Ai models with so-called reasonable to break down multi-step tasks, and when connected to other apps and software, they can makecomplish tasks outs Anthropic’s New Feature Works by Giving Claude “Access to a Private Computer Environment with It Can Write Code and Run Programs to Programs to Produce the Files and Analyses You Need.”
Competitors have introduced similar agentic features. Openai’s chatgpt has an agent that can browse the web and similar compile reports through accessing your calendar and files. Google’s Project Mariner is a Prototype Exploring Agentic Web Browsing, and then there are web browsers like arc dia and perplexity comt that can shop and add items to your Cart.
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But anthropic’s new feature is a little more straightforward in that you feed it data or instruments and it puts it all togeether in the desired format. In that sense, the closest comparison is a tool called shortcut ai, which replicates an excel sporesheet page and automats all of the data input from a sidebar chatbot. Anthropic Says Users Can Ask Claude to Perform Tasks Like Creaking a Financial Model in a Spreadsheet from Their Raw Data, Turning A PDF INTO A PowerPoint, Oor Genrating Reports with Visual Charts and Written analysis.
To get started with the feature, go to settings> features> Experimental and enable the toggle that say “upgraded file creation and analysis.” From there can start asking claude to make files using uploaded files or written prompts.
A note of caution to keep in mind with any chatbot: Be Wary About Sensitive Information You’re Sharing. That’s particular important with claude, anthropic just updated its terms of use, saying it will use conversions for model training the user opts outs out. Users have until sept. 28 to opt out, which they can do in his privacy settings by toggling off “Help improves claude.”
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