Anthropic on Thursday fired A new way to combine applications and tools with AI Chatbot Claude, as well as an extended function of “deep research”, which allows Claude to search for internet accounts, enterprises and many others.
The new application connection function, called integrations and an extended tool of deep research, named advanced research, are available in beta for subscribers of Claude Max plans, team and anthropic enterprises, and soon Pro. In related messages, Anthropic also raised speed limits for AI, Claude Code, for customers, max.
Integrations, as well as advanced research are part of Anthropica's efforts to keep up with competitive chatbots such as Google's Gemini and Chatgpt Openai. Anthropic apparently He hopes to achieve revenues of $ 34.5 billion in 2027 and although he certainly does it, it has a long way. Anthropic annual revenues amounted to around $ 1.4 billion at the beginning of March, According to one report.
Integrations are based on the company's MCP protocol, which allows AI models to download data from sources such as business tools to perform tasks, as well as from repositories of content and programming environments. Integrations are used by MCP to allow programmers to create and host application servers that improve Claude's capabilities, and also allow users to discover and connect these servers from Claude.
“When you combine your tools with Claude, he gains a deep context about your work – understanding the history of the project, tasks status and organizational knowledge – and can take action on any surface” wrote anthropic in a blog post.
At the beginning there are many integrations of anthropic partners, including Atlassian, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Square and PayPal. Everyone is expanding what Claude can do. For example, Atlassian integration allows Claude to summarize and create pages in the Atlassian Confluence Workplace software, while the integration of Zapier allows Claude to connect with the flows of the former applications.
As for another new Claude function, which fires today, advanced research, allows Claude on the crawling of “hundreds” of internal and external sources in order to provide what Anthropics describes as “more comprehensive” reports on a topic in any place from five to 45 minutes. Anthropic says that advanced research can use the newly expanded Claude connectors to search in various integration and during the use of the Claude computer application on MacOS or Windows-Local MCP drives.
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“Thanks to the new ability to conduct more complex tests, available when switching the test button, Claude distributes your request into smaller parts, examining each deeply before developing a comprehensive report,” Anthropic continued in the blog post. “When Claude takes into account information from sources, it contains clear quotes that connect directly to the original material.”
Recently, a lot of deep research tools have appeared in chatbots, such as Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot and Xai's Grok. Conducting them is “reasoning” of AI models that have the ability to think about problems and check facts-probably important for conducting in-depth research on a given topic.
Anthropic research tool was previously one of the faster tools in the deep research category, occupying about a minute to develop reports. But the results were usually shallower, partly because the research was not used by the reasoning model.
