Anthropic's Cloud App Integrations and Hiring Challenges
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What new interactive Cloud apps has Anthropic launched?
Welcome to the podcast. I'm your host, Jaden Schaefer. Today on the show, we have a couple different news stories from Anthropic. One that I thought was pretty funny is that Anthropic has to keep revising their technical review questions because Clod code keeps getting better. We're going to get into all of that. In addition, Anthropic has just launched a bunch of new interactive Clod apps.
They have Slack and a bunch of other workplace integrations, which are going to be pretty cool. So I want to get into all of that as well. Before we get into the podcast, I want to mention if you want to be able to build tools and apps and you don't know how to code, I'd love for you to go check out AI box dot AI, my very own platform.
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How do the new apps integrate with tools like Slack and Canva?
So I think they just like one of the biggest things is that they just rolled out this new major update to Claude, which has all of these interactive apps that run directly inside of the chatbot interface. I was just talking to someone recently who was like super excited about the Canva integration where you can use it straight inside of Claude, which is kind of interesting and and perhaps a little different than what we've seen other places. One of the things that this feature is essentially letting you do is connect third party tools to Claude. So you can basically turn this into a bit more of a hands on workspace rather than just using this as, you know, somewhere that you go when you want to have a conversation or ask it something and then you got to copy and paste that and go stick it somewhere else.
They're trying to keep everything inside of Claude so that you can actually do the full task or the full job inside of Claude. So when they've just launched this, they have an app directory. You can see that this really leans heavily towards a lot of different enterprise and productivity apps right now. They have Slack, Canva, Figma, Box, Clay. There's a Salesforce integration that's supposed to be coming soon. Once you go and actually connect to the cloud, it can integrate with logged in instances of all of those different services. So it's basically going to let you send Slack messages, you can generate charts, or you can pull files from cloud storage, just depending on what app you have linked.
This is what they wrote in their announcement. They said, analyzing data, designing content and managing projects all work better with a dedicated visual interface. Combined with clouds intelligence, you can work and iterate faster than than either could offer a loan. So I think this new app system is interesting, it's going to be available on the pro maxim teams and also the enterprise subscribers. But if you're a free tier user, I am sorry to tell you, you do not get it. If you are eligible, you can get all of these in the cloud directory right now. And I know people that are already testing these out and trying them. So I think what's interesting here is that a lot of these features are kind of the same thing that OpenAI's app system, which they launched back in October, are doing.
Both of these, both of them are really relying heavily on MCP or model context protocol, which is basically this kind of open source standard that Anthropic introduced back in 2024. And then they kind of later adopted across their whole ecosystem.
What is the Model Context Protocol and how does it enhance workflows?
And what I do love is that it seems like everyone is kind of adopting this MCP. So it's not just like an Anthropic thing, but OpenAI and Google are also kind kind of working with it. So essentially, what MCP is doing is kind of adding this formal app support.
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