Anthropic Predicts Demand for Cowork Agent to Dwarf Claude Code

A top Anthropic PBC executive expects the company’s general-purpose artificial intelligence agent, Cowork, to reach a wider market than Claude Code, the hit product that helped turn the startup into an AI juggernaut.

Anthropic has seen stronger adoption for Cowork “in the first few weeks” than it did in a comparable period for Claude Code a year ago, Chief Commercial Officer Paul Smith said in an interview on Wednesday. Smith said the average large company has somewhere between 2% and 5% of its staff working in engineering. Cowork, he said, is more likely to appeal to “the rest of ...