New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- On 30 January, artificial intelligence safety and research firm Anthropic PBC launched 11 plugins for its generative AI platform, Claude Cowork. The platform, which was launched earlier in January, together with the new plugins, can potentially automate a range of workplace tasks, such as processing insurance claims, clearing company bills, and maintaining automated logs for factories and warehouses.

While Claude isn't the first to do all of this, it still sent the entire software world into a meltdown over the past few days. In a world awash with technology companies hoping to automate work with generative AI, how did Claude make such a massive splash? Mint explains.

Very simply put, Claude Cowork is software that ...