Claude is Anthropic's general-purpose AI assistant, available to individuals and teams through web, desktop, and mobile experiences. It is designed for writing, reading, research, data analysis, and coding tasks that benefit from substantial context, allowing users to add documents, images, and project material instead of compressing everything into a single prompt.
A distinctive part of Claude is the way a conversation can become a working deliverable. Artifacts open substantial documents, code, diagrams, websites, or interactive tools in a separate surface where they can be edited and iterated. Projects keep related chats, knowledge files, and persistent instructions together so later conversations can work from a stable body of context. When outside information is needed, Claude can search the web, connect to Google Workspace or other integrations, and organize the result into cited research. Uploaded data can also be analyzed and visualized. The product is useful for researchers, content teams, analysts, and developers carrying a subject across multiple steps, although citations, analysis results, and generated code still need review before use.