Anthropic Expands Claude Cowork to Mobile and Web

In June 2025, Anthropic expanded its AI agent feature "Claude Cowork" to mobile apps and web browsers. Previously exclusive to desktop, this tool is now accessible across multiple devices, enabling workflows such as starting a task on a personal computer and reviewing it on a smartphone. The company is initially offering a beta version to Max plan subscribers, with plans to gradually expand to other plans in the future.

The defining characteristic of Cowork is that it continues to process tasks in the background even after users close the app. In other words, users can "delegate and assign" tasks, then simply review the results later. While asynchronous workflows have primarily been discussed in AI coding tools for engineers, Anthropic's latest update represents a strategic shift toward broader adoption among knowledge workers across various professions.

Alongside this announcement, Anthropic released data illustrating actual usage patterns. The company analyzed 1.2 million anonymized Claude Cowork sessions from May 11-31, 2025, across more than 600,000 organizations. The findings reveal that the vast majority of users leverage Cowork for purposes beyond programming.

Breaking down usage by purpose, the most common category was "business process and task management," accounting for 33.4% of total usage. This includes activities such as aggregating information from multiple sources to create reports or building onboarding checklists. The second most common was "content creation and writing" at 16.4%. These top two categories alone represent approximately half of all usage. Software development, by contrast, accounted for only 8.7%, followed by DevOps and infrastructure at 7.0%, research and information gathering at 6.4%, and data analysis at 5.8%.

Anthropic characterizes these primary use cases as "the work around the work." This term refers not to profession-specific expertise, but rather to the collaborative and administrative tasks that everyone performs daily to move projects forward. Examples include drafting progress reports, creating presentation slides, and condensing vast research materials into a single-page report.

The enterprise AI market has historically focused attention on coding assistance tools for developers. However, this data demonstrates that real-world AI adoption in corporate environments differs significantly from this narrative. The trend of non-technical professionals integrating AI agents to streamline everyday work suggests that the primary domain of AI utilization is expanding from development departments to entire organizations.

With mobile support making the workflow of "delegating tasks anytime, anywhere and reviewing results later" increasingly practical, the opportunities for enterprise AI tool adoption are likely to expand further. Key questions moving forward include which professions and industries Anthropic will target for growth, and how the company's plan expansion timeline will unfold.