Claude comes for Gemini with its own take on Docs and Slides

Sep 16, 2026 11:30 PM - 1 hour ago 1

Claude is getting a brace of caller devices today: Docs and Slides. They’ll fto you create documents and presentations done Claude chats, which you tin export, edit, and stock pinch different users.

As portion of the announcement, Anthropic is besides simplifying really Claude chats work, merging regular chats and Cowork into “one Claude,” pinch each of its AI productivity devices disposable from immoderate chat. Artifacts and Claude Design capabilities will beryllium disposable done the caller azygous interface arsenic well. According to Anthropic, Claude “can now fig retired what a task needs, truthful what Cowork and Design tin do is disposable from immoderate conversation, pinch the context, skills, and connectors you already have.”

Claude Docs and Slides are launching successful beta, joining Claude Design arsenic portion of the AI platform’s productivity tools. You tin person Claude make documents and presentations from immoderate chat. You tin inquire Claude to make changes to immoderate it creates, aliases make edits manually.

A screenshot of Claude Slides pinch an orangish background

Image: Anthropic

Like Google Docs, Claude Docs commencement arsenic backstage documents, but you tin stock them pinch different editors who tin activity connected the archive astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic you. Collaborators, including Claude, tin time off comments that look for illustration those connected a Google Doc. Anthropic says “Anything you make pinch Claude Design, Slides, aliases Docs lives astatine 1 shareable nexus you tin unfastened connected your phone.”

Anthropic’s models are mostly seen arsenic much precocious than Google’s, but Google’s AI services person the advantage of being natively tied into its suite of productivity tools. Earlier this year, Google expanded Gemini’s role successful Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides pinch features for illustration a Gemini chat model successful Docs, generating and editing full documents pinch Gemini, and creating slides pinch Gemini. The summation of Docs and Slides to Claude starts to adjacent the spread betwixt Anthropic’s AI level and Google’s productivity tools, giving users less reasons to time off a Claude chat for different tools.

The “one Claude” update is rolling retired first to Pro and Max users connected web, desktop, and mobile “over the adjacent fewer weeks,” pinch entree for Team andusers coming later. Anthropic says there’s “nothing to move on” for the update, and users tin besides support utilizing Claude chat normally.

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