Anthropic debuts Projects, letting Claude.ai Pro and Team users work with chats, docs, code, and more in one place; each project has a 200K-token context window

I'm really excited about this latest feature. … Forums: Hacker News : Anthropic Introduces Claude Projects r/OpenAI : Anthropic just gave Claude their equivalent of GPTs (Projects), for Pro users. No advance hype or anything!

VentureBeat 2024-06-26 Michael Nuñez

Context & Ripple Effects

Anthropic had already established a 200K-token capacity with Claude 2.1’s expanded context window. Projects turns that capacity into a persistent product boundary for paid users rather than a property of an individual prompt.

The launch also follows Artifacts’ interactive output surface, extending Claude from a chat interface toward a place where work inputs and outputs can stay organized together.

First-order effects

Claude.ai Pro and Team users can separate ongoing work into dedicated spaces that hold chats, documents, code, and other material under a shared 200K-token context.
Anthropic adds a clearer paid-workflow feature to Claude.ai: the immediate value is continuity across related materials, rather than repeatedly re-supplying context in standalone chats.

Second-order effects

Competing assistant products face added pressure to pair long context with usable workspace organization; raw context-window size is less differentiating when it is not attached to a repeatable workflow.
Projects creates a natural foundation for Anthropic’s later product layers, including Enterprise GitHub integration and broader app connections, because those capabilities are more useful when attached to a defined work area.

Third-order effects

If this pattern holds, AI assistants will compete increasingly as work surfaces that retain project-specific context, not merely as general-purpose chatbots.
The durable differentiator may shift from model access alone to how well an assistant consolidates documents, tools, and outputs while preserving user control over the project boundary.

The trend: Projects is an early step in the consolidation of AI chat, files, code, and tools into persistent, workflow-native assistant workspaces.

Discussion

@petergyang Peter Yang on x
Anthropic out here just announcing and launching killer features at the same time. Don't they realize they need to announce ahead of time and then not ship for months.
@anthropicai @anthropicai on x
You can now organize chats with Claude into shareable Projects. Each project includes a 200K context window, so you can include relevant documents, code, and files. [video]
@hamish_kerr Hamish Kerr on x
You can make an outrageously good SQL query generator with this feature. Fill a project with existing queries and schema, then ask it questions. It's changed the way I work.
@sallya Sally Aldous on x
Can't help but feel that Claude Projects would have been amazing when I was on the PR agency side - an easy way to tap into your team's shared expertise.
@nickadobos Nick Dobos on x
Anthropic made a GPT builder!!!
@benlucassherry Ben Sherry on x
NEW: Anthropic just announced a new workplace feature called Projects. You can load up a Project with up to 200,000 tokens worth of context, and use that context to ground Claude in your company's internal knowledge. Read more: https://www.inc.com/... @Inc
@mikeyk Mike Krieger on x
New today: organize your claude[dot]ai chats in Projects, and add files & context and 💫 custom instructions 💫 that are shared across all project chats. And on the Claude Team plan, you can discover great uses of Claude within your team using a new activity feed & shared chats.
@andrewcurran_ Andrew Curran on x
This is live for me now. The best part is it incorporates project-specific Custom Instructions for Claude. When they launched Claude 3 Anthropic said ‘we plan to release frequent updates to the Claude 3 model family over the next few months’ and they are delivering. [image]
r/OpenAI r on reddit
Anthropic just gave Claude their equivalent of GPTs (Projects), for Pro users. No advance hype or anything!

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