Anthropic PBC wants Claude to enter the Slack chat in a bigger way.
The artificial intelligence startup on June 23 unveiled Claude Tag, a new feature that lets users have the chatbot interact with everyone in a Slack channel on their behalf. The tool can be used to monitor activity in the work messaging app and, with some preset guidance, send alerts about posts that may impact the user’s day or drop a comment in a conversation. It can also be ordered to fix issues with code.
Anthropic and rival OpenAI have spent much of the past year developing AI tools to streamline a wider range of professional tasks – from financial services to health care – with the goal of courting more business customers and justifying their lofty valuations. Anthropic, now valued at US$965bil (RM4 trillion), is pushing toward an initial public offering.
To carry out complicated tasks, users will have to connect Claude Tag to data sources and services like calendars or email, said Cat Wu, Anthropic’s head of product for Claude Code and Cowork. About 65% of the Anthropic product team’s code is now created by an internal version of Claude Tag, she said.
"It’s been a huge change to how we get work done,” Wu said.
The Claude Tag rollout comes less than two weeks after the startup disabled access to its most advanced AI models – Fable 5 and Mythos 5 – due to a Trump administration order to keep the technology out of the hands of foreign nationals. Wu said Anthropic intended for Fable 5 to be the model underpinning Claude Tag, along with Opus 4.8, which Anthropic released in May.
"Fable is the best model to use this product with,” she said, adding that it’s more capable than Opus 4.8 at carrying out coding work as well as fielding tasks without much help from the user and determining when to jump into a conversation.
Anthropic already offers Claude within Slack, though in a more limited way. Claude Tag, which replaces the existing Claude Slack app, will be rolled out to the company’s enterprise and team subscription users. – Bloomberg
