Anthropic merges Cowork and chat into “one Claude” and launches Claude Docs, Slides and Design in beta

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Key facts

• Announced Sept 16, 2026
• Cowork, Claude Design and Artifacts modes unified under one chat
• Claude Docs exports to Word, PDF, Markdown and Google Docs; Claude Slides presents in Claude or exports PowerPoint/PDF
• Docs and Slides beta on paid plans, rolling out to Pro and Max first
• Claude Design first launched as a research preview April 17, 2026
• Enterprise GA (claude.com, Oct 23): the unified chat-plus-Cowork Claude is generally available on Claude Enterprise; agentic work runs in Anthropic-managed cloud sessions, each in its own VM with network egress off by default and connector credentials kept outside the sandbox; admins get a new Efficient mode (keeps the unified experience on Sonnet and Haiku), per-role model entitlements, spend limits and pooled group budgets; organisations on zero data retention for Claude Code, HIPAA-ready setups or customer-managed keys stay on their current configuration
• Anthropic’s cost claim (same post): billed through usage, Opus 5.5 ‘costs 40% less to run than Claude Opus 5 on typical workloads’ and Sonnet 5.5 ‘up to 30% less than Claude Sonnet 5 for most work’