Anthropic’s Claude can now read your Gmail
Anthropic announced on Tuesday that the AI Chatbot, Claude, is now integrating with Google Workspace, so that it can search and refer your e -mails in Gmail, planned events in Google Agenda and documents in Google Docs.
The integration is first rolled out in Beta to subscribers to Anthropic’s Max, Team, Enterprise and Pro plans. Administrators who manage multi-user accounts must engage the integration on their side before users can connect their Google workspace and Claude accounts according to Anthropic.
Google DeepMind’s Gemini Chatbot also integrates with Workspace and the Chatgpt of OpenAI integrates with Google Drive. However, Anthropic is one of third-party AI companies that offer a way to connect closely with the productivity suite of Google.
Anthropic’s team-up With Google, Claude wants to give more personally tailored answers without having to repeatedly have to upload files or make detailed instructions. OpenAi and Google have tried to achieve the same effect through different approaches, such as adding memory functions with which chatbots can refer in their answers in earlier conversations.
In a press release, Anthropic says that the new integration of Claude can help users organize their professional and personal lives. For example, anthropic claims can help parents by scanning “e -mails and agenda events to emphasize important obligations, while searching the internet for updated school calendars, local community events and weather forecasts that can influence family plans.”
Claude will offer in-line quotes when it refers to workspace content, which shows users exactly where specific information originated, says Anthropic.
Although the Integration Claude does not give the possibility to plan agenda events or send e emails, it can cause security problems to some users. It is unclear how extensive Claude will search through the Google workspace of a person, or that users must instruct Claude to look at a certain e -mail or agenda event, depending on the nature of their request. It is also not clear whether users can ask Claude not to look for certain sensitive e emails or files.
In response to the above, an anthropic spokesperson WAN said that the company does not train models on user data and “strict authentication and access control mechanisms” has implemented external services such as Workspace.
“The connections of each user or organization with external services (such as Google Drive, Gmail, etc.) are correctly verified and authorized for only those specific users or organization,” the spokesperson said in a statement. “Claude does not have the option to access or transfer data between the connected services of different users, because each connection is bound to the specific authentication login data of that individual user or organization.”
Anthropic also announced the launch of Claude Research on Tuesday, a new function that performs multiple searches on the web to generate detailed answers. Claude Research is positioned as a competitor of OpenAi and Google’s “Deep Research” agents and offers an “optimum assessment” between speed and extent, says Anthropic.
Claude Research usually runs less than a minute to put together info, according to an anthropic spokesperson – faster than some rival deep research agents. However, Claude Research does not use an adapted model, using Claude’s recently launched web search options instead.
The company rolls out Claude Research for subscribers to its maximum, team and business plans in the United States, Japan and Brazil. It will soon come to Pro customers, says Anthropic.
These updates are part of Anthropic’s wider effort to attract users to the AI subscription plans with functions that make Claude Capabeler and more useful. While Claude grows in popularity and 3.3 million web users are reached in March, according to data collected by SimilseWeb, the user base of Anthropic is still overshadowed by Chatgpt.
