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Anthropic released a set of MCP-based connectors integrating Claude with major creative software platforms including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Affinity by Canva, Ableton, SketchUp, Splice, and Resolume. The connectors enable natural-language control, scripting, asset management, and pipeline bridging within tools creative professionals already use. Anthropic also announced partnerships with RISD, Ringling College, and Goldsmiths to support AI-in-creative-education curricula. A new product, Claude Design, was previewed as an ideation tool with export to Canva.
Anthropic introduced Agent Skills, a system allowing users and developers to package instructions, scripts, and resources into reusable folders that Claude loads contextually when relevant to a task. Skills are composable, portable across Claude apps, Claude Code, and the API, and can include executable code for tasks where deterministic programming outperforms token generation. The feature is available to Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, with an API endpoint for programmatic management, and has been published as an open standard for cross-platform portability. Partner integrations with Box, Canva, and Notion are already live, and an open GitHub marketplace exists for community-built skills.
Anthropic has released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, described as their most capable model to date and the first hybrid reasoning model on the market, capable of operating in both standard and extended thinking modes within a single unified model. The model achieves state-of-the-art results on SWE-bench Verified and TAU-bench, with particular strength in coding and front-end web development. Alongside the model, Anthropic is launching Claude Code in limited research preview, a command-line agentic coding tool that can read/edit files, run tests, and push to GitHub. Pricing remains unchanged at $3/M input and $15/M output tokens, with availability across Claude.ai plans, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Cloud Vertex AI.
Anthropic has released Claude Sonnet 4.5, claiming it is the best coding model and strongest model for building complex agents, with a 61.4% score on OSWorld (up from 42.2% for Sonnet 4) and state-of-the-art performance on SWE-bench Verified. The release is accompanied by major product upgrades including checkpoints in Claude Code, a native VS Code extension, a Claude Agent SDK giving developers access to the same infrastructure powering Claude Code, and new context editing and memory tools in the Claude API. Pricing is unchanged from Sonnet 4 at $3/$15 per million input/output tokens. Early enterprise customers including Cursor, GitHub Copilot, Devin, Canva, and Figma report significant gains in coding, agentic, and long-context tasks.
Anthropic is opening a Sydney office as its fourth Asia-Pacific location, joining Tokyo, Bengaluru, and Seoul. The expansion targets enterprise, startup, and research customers in Australia and New Zealand, where Claude ranks 4th and 8th globally in per-capita usage. Anthropic is also exploring compute capacity expansion in Australia to address data residency requirements from enterprises and government agencies, with longer-term infrastructure conversations underway.
Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a new product under its Anthropic Labs umbrella that enables collaborative visual design work including prototypes, slides, wireframes, and marketing collateral. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, the tool supports brand system ingestion, inline editing, multi-user collaboration, and direct handoff to Claude Code for implementation. It is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, with integrations including Canva and PPTX export. The product targets both professional designers seeking faster exploration and non-designers needing to produce visual work.
Anthropic has released a suite of connectors enabling Claude to integrate directly with major creative software platforms including Adobe Creative Cloud, Blender, Autodesk Fusion, Ableton, Affinity by Canva, SketchUp, Resolume, and Splice. The connectors are built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), making them accessible to other LLMs as well. Anthropic also announced Claude Design, a new product from Anthropic Labs for exploring software UI concepts with export to Canva, and partnerships with RISD, Ringling College, and Goldsmiths to support creative computing curricula. A one-time donation was made to the Blender project to support its Python API development.
Anthropic has launched Claude for Small Business, a product offering 15 pre-built agentic workflows and integrations with tools including QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, Docusign, Google Workspace, and Microsoft 365. The product runs through Claude Cowork and targets small business owners with tasks like payroll planning, monthly close, invoice chasing, and marketing campaign execution. Users approve actions before anything is sent, posted, or paid, addressing data security concerns cited by half of surveyed small business owners. The launch includes partnerships with Intuit, HubSpot, and Canva, and is framed as part of Anthropic's public benefit mission.