Claude Cowork turns Claude from a chat tool into shared AI infrastructure
Emilia David January 23, 2026 Credit: VentureBeat, generated with MidJourneyClaude Cowork is now available to more Claude users, alongside new updates aimed at team workflows.Anthropic made Claude Cowork accessible to users on Team and Enterprise plans, and it brings the platform closer to being a collaborative AI infrastructure. For enterprise teams, the change matters less as a feature update than as a shift in how Claude is meant to be used. Cowork reframes Claude as a shared, persistent workspace where context, files, and tasks live beyond a single user session. This aligns more closely with how teams actually operate than one-off chat interactions.Cowork, released earlier in January, lets people complete non-technical tasks in the same asynchronous way they use Claude Code. It was…
