Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude

Anthropic is merging its “Claude Cowork” and “Claude chat” functionalities into a single, unified “Claude” experience, aiming to reduce user confusion.
Simon interprets this move as Claude “becoming a general agent in its own right,” drawing a parallel to OpenAI’s earlier renaming of their Codex desktop app to ChatGPT.
While the merger simplifies product naming, Simon anticipates that “figuring out what this actually means in terms of features and surfaces is still going to take quite a bit of work” for users.