Anthropic's New Plugins and $3 Billion Lawsuit
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Today on the podcast, we have a ton of news from Anthropic. I think the first one is that they've just introduced a whole bunch of new plugins that can go with their new co-working capability that they've recently rolled out. And the other bit of news is less good for Anthropic.
What new plugins has Anthropic introduced for enterprise users?
There's a whole bunch of different music publishers. They're suing Anthropic for $3 billion for what they call flagrant piracy of about 20,000 pieces of work. So today on the podcast, we're going to break down the new features from Anthropic, and some of the controversy that they have found themselves in this week. Before we get into that, I wanted to mention if you want access to building AI tools, if you're not a developer, I'd love for you to check out my platform, AIbox.ai. You can describe any tool you want to create, any workflow you want to automate. It will link together different AI models, put in prompts for you, and create a tool that can automate what you do. If you want to go try it out, there's a link in the description to AIbox.ai.
I'd love to hear what you think about it. Let's get into the episode. So earlier this month, Anthropic, they released the new cowork. Basically, this is a new agent kind of tool that gives a lot of the core capabilities of their cloud code assistant that I think, you know, a lot of developers are very famously in love with. I over here at AI box, my startup, we use cloud code a ton. Not myself. I'm not a developer, but our developers, this is basically what we run everything on. So they've released essentially something like cloud code, but for the general population, the general public that is not developers. So they've built a sort of more general purpose product. And they're calling this co work. So right now, they have just expanded co work with a bunch of new features that are aimed at
I think a lot of enterprise users specifically, and that was kind of where they were initially going with that. But now they've also added plugins. So plugins are basically designed to automate specialized tasks for a bunch of different departments inside of your company. So that could mean writing marketing copy, reviewing legal documents for risk if you're generating customer support responses. Every single plugin applies a Gentic automation to a specific workflow, which basically lets your team streamline any sort of repeatable work that you do and do it really consistently, which is really cool. So according to Anthropic, plugins let organizations define how work should be done, which tools and data sources Cloud should use, and then also how critical workflows are handled.
Matt Piccoletta, who is a member of Anthropic's product team, was talking about all of this and said that plugins are basically intentionally built to be customizable. So what they say they expect is that enterprise customers are going to develop their own use cases using all of these plugins as part of this kind of big launch that they just did. Anthropic also open sourced 11 internal plugins, while also saying that custom plugins are really easy to build, edit, and share, even if you don't have any expertise, you're not a developer. Plugins have basically existed inside of Cloud Code for a long time, but now they're bringing them to CoWork, which I think is, you know, fantastic. A lot of the best features that are in Cloud Code, if you could just give that to the general population that is not developers, I think this is going to be really popular.
So they're bringing them all into CoWork, and I think this is basically about making the functionality increase for Cloud and for more people. This is what they said about it. They said, quote, what we're really doing with this launch is bringing them to co-work and giving them a more user-friendly UI-centric experience so the maximum number of people can use them. Inside of Anthropic themselves, plugins have already had a lot of good traction. Apparently, they say inside of their departments. Like data analysts and sales, they're using these a lot.
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