DevOps / SRE / Platform · 26.08.2026, 22:17 UTC
Anthropic’s Claude now has a browser of its own
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| Kategorie | DevOps / SRE / Platform |
| Quelle | The New Stack ↗ |
| Veröffentlicht | 26.08.2026 UTC |
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Anthropic is giving Claude its own browser.
As the company announced on Wednesday, Claude on the desktop (Mac, Windows, and Linux) now has access to a built-in Chromium-based browser in Cowork that allows it to surf the web right where you’re already doing your work.
This finally puts Anthropic’s Claude desktop app in line with OpenAI, which recently gave up its ambitions to build Atlas, its stand-alone browser, and instead added it to its ChatGPT desktop app.
This new feature is now rolling out to paying Pro, Max, and Team plan subscribers.
A browser, not your browser
Previously, for Claude to browse the web, you had to install a Chrome extension. That always felt a bit like a hack, though it worked reasonably well. But having used the ChatGPT app with the built-in browser — and the ability to quickly take screenshots in the browser and discuss them with the model — having a dedicated browser in these apps makes many workflows much easier.
Fun fact: the original Claude Chrome extension launched exactly a year ago, on August 26, 2025. It’s also only been two weeks since Anthropic launched a major update to the Chrome Extension, essentially turning it into a Cowork session. But the AI development cycle moves quickly, and two weeks is a very long time.
Credit: Anthropic.
“Until now, giving Claude the ability to use the web in Cowork meant giving it access to your browser through the Claude in Chrome extension,” Anthropic explains. “When the work is on a page you already have open, that’s still the right choice. But a lot of web tasks don’t need your browser, …