Anthropic Launches Office Tools, Challenging Microsoft

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Anthropic has launched three new tools in Claude: Claude Sheets, Claude Whiteboards and Claude Data. The tools make it possible to build spreadsheets, whiteboards and data dashboards directly within the chat window, without opening additional software.

Claude Sheets makes it possible to create tables and perform calculations through the chat, instead of working manually in Excel. Users can ask the artificial intelligence to do the work for them. The announcement also includes a direct connection to data repositories and the ability to build financial reports from within a conversation.

Following the announcement, Microsoft's shares fell by up to 3.5%. Microsoft 365 cloud accounts for about 30% of the company's quarterly revenue.