Anthropic just made every Claude user a no-code app developer

Anthropic announced Wednesday that it will transform its Claude AI assistant into a platform for creating interactive, shareable applications, marking a significant evolution from conversational chatbots toward functional software tools that users can build and distribute without coding knowledge.

The San Francisco-based AI company revealed that millions of users have already created more than 500 million “artifacts” — interactive content ranging from educational games to data analysis tools — since the feature’s initial launch. Now, Anthropic is embedding Claude’s intelligence directly into these creations, enabling them to process user input and adapt content in real-time independently of ongoing conversations.

The development represents a fundamental shift in how artificial intelligence interfaces with users, moving beyond static responses toward dynamic, interactive experiences that blur the lines between AI assistance and software development. The move intensifies competition with OpenAI’s Canvas feature, which launched in October with similar split-screen functionality for editing AI-generated ...