Anthropic will finally allow more people to use Claude on Google Chrome. Company AI Browser Plugin extension over 200 dollars per month Max subscribers and is now available to everyone who pays for a Claude subscription.
The Claude Chrome plugin gives you easy access to Anthropic's artificial intelligence no matter where you are on the internet, but its real appeal is that it allows Claude to navigate and use websites on your behalf. Anthropic says Claude can fill out forms, manage calendar and email, and complete multi-step workflows based on prompts. The latest version of the plugin also provides integration with Claude Code, Anthropic's artificial coding tool, and allows users to record a workflow and “teach” Claude how to do what they want.
Before “agents” became a “computer use” buzzword, the ability of AI models understand and interact with computer interfaceshas been the focus of attention for Anthropic and other artificial intelligence companies. Nowadays, using a computer is just one tool in a larger toolbox for agents, but understanding which number buttons to press and how to press them is what makes Claude's Chrome plugin possible.
OpenAI and Perplexity offer similar agent capabilities in their respective systems. ChatGPT Atlas And Comet browsers. Currently, the only AI company that doesn't fully host its AI models in the browser is Google. You can access Gemini in Google Chrome and ask questions about a web page, but Google has not yet allowed its artificial intelligence model to roam the web or use it on behalf of the user. These features, first demonstrated in Project Marinerpresumably already on the way.
