Anthropic publicizes new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout

Anthropic publicizes new AI tools weeks after legal plug-in spurred market rout

Anthropic said its new plug-ins were developed with partners, including LSEG, FactSet, Salesforce's Slack, and DocuSign

Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic unveiled 10 new ways for business customers to plug in its technology to key areas of their work, weeks after other releases sparked an aggressive selloff in traditional software company shares.

The San Francisco-based startup said that its plug-ins could now help with investment banking tasks like reviewing deals, wealth-management tasks such as portfolio analysis, and human resource-related tasks such as making new-hire materials reflect a brand's tone and policies.

Other items that Anthropic touted included plug-ins for private equity, engineering and design.

Anthropic said its new plug-ins were developed with partners, including LSEG, FactSet, Salesforce's Slack, and DocuSign.

It said that companies including Thomson Reuters which owns news agency Reuters and RBC Wealth Management were using AI agents powered by Anthropic.

The announcement lifted the shares of Anthropic's partner companies - Salesforce rose 4%, FactSet 5% and DocuSign nearly 6%.

Backed by Alphabet's Google and Amazon.com, the lab said it was releasing ways to connect its Claude AI to some commonly used business tools like Google Calendar and Gmail. The rapid-fire releases this year show how Anthropic is seeking to get ahead of the pack in selling autonomous AI to the lucrative enterprise market ahead of a widely expected public offering.

Companies can build and manage their own plug-ins as well, Anthropic said.