Anthropic lets users connect more apps to Claude

Anthropic has launched a new way on Thursday to connect apps and tools to his AI Chatbot Claude, as well as an extensive “deep research” options with which Claude can search on the internet, company accounts and more.

The new app connection function, Integrations and Expanded Deep Research Tool, called advanced research, are available in beta for subscribers of Anthropic’s Claude Max, Team and Enterprise plans, and soon Pro. In related news, Anthropic has also increased the interest limits for his AI-driven coding tool, Claude Code, for Max customers.

Integrations and advanced research are both part of Anthropic’s efforts to keep pace with competing chatbots such as Google’s Gemini and OpenAi’s chatgpt. Anthropic Reportedly Hopes $ 34.5 billion in income in 2027, and although it certainly comes in, it still has a long way to go. Anthropic income was around $ 1.4 billion, around $ 1.4 billion, at the beginning of March, By one report.

Integrations builds on the MCP protocol of the company, with which AI models can draw data from sources such as business tools to complete tasks, as well as from content repositories and app development environments. Integrations tap MCP so that developers can make app servers and hosts that improve the possibilities of Claude and users can discover these servers and connect with Claude.

“When you connect your tools with Claude, it gets a deep context about your work – understanding project histories, task statuses and organizational knowledge – and can take actions over any surface,” wrote anthropic in a blog post.

To begin with, there are a number of integrations from anthropic partners, including Atlassian, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Square and PayPal. Each extends what Claude can do. With the Atlassian integration, for example, Claude can summarize pages and create in the Confluence Workplace Software of Atlassian, while the Zappier -Integration Claude enables Claude to connect to the workflows of the app automation of the first.

Regarding the other new Claude function launched today, advanced research, it enables Claude to crawl “hundreds of” internal and external sources to deliver what anthropic describes as “more extensive” reports on a subject in five to 45 minutes. Advanced research can take advantage of the new extensive connectors of Claude, says Anthropic, to search for integrations and when using the Claude Desktop app on macOS or Windows-MCP-connected local disks.

“With his new possibility of doing more complex research, available when you switch on the research button, Claude breaks down your request in smaller parts, each of which is deeply investigated before you draw up an extensive report,” Anthropic continued in the blog post. “When Claude records information from sources, this offers clear quotes that link directly to the original material.”

A series of deep research tools has recently been launched in chatbots such as Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot and Xai’s Grok. Managing them are “reasoning” AI models, which have the ability to think through problems and to control skills that are demonstrably important for conducting in-depth research into a subject.

Anthropic research tool was previously one of the faster tools in this category and lasted about a minute to put together reports. But the results were often shallower, partly because it didn’t use a reasoning model.