Anthropic is widening what Claude can reach. The company on Thursday launched Integrations, a new app connection system for its AI chatbot, alongside Advanced Research, an expanded research capability designed to search across more sources before producing a report.
The features arrive in beta for subscribers to Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, with Pro access coming soon. Anthropic also said it has raised rate limits for Claude Code, its AI-powered coding tool, for Max customers.
Claude moves closer to everyday work tools
Integrations is built on Anthropic's MCP protocol, which lets AI models draw information from sources such as business tools, content repositories, and app development environments. With this launch, developers can create and host app servers that extend Claude, while users can discover those servers and connect them to the chatbot.
The purpose is to give Claude more context about the work a person or organization is already doing. In Anthropic's description, connected tools can help Claude understand project histories, task statuses, and organizational knowledge, and then act across connected surfaces.
That matters because chatbots are increasingly being judged not only by what they can generate in a blank conversation, but also by how well they can operate inside the systems people already use. A chatbot that can see relevant work context can answer with more specific detail than one limited to a standalone prompt.
Anthropic is not starting with an empty marketplace. Initial Integrations include partners such as Atlassian, Zapier, Cloudflare, Intercom, Square, and PayPal. Each one expands Claude in a different direction, depending on the connected service.
- The Atlassian Integration lets Claude summarize and create pages in Atlassian's Confluence workplace software.
- The Zapier Integration lets Claude connect to Zapier's app automation workflows.
- Other launch partners include Cloudflare, Intercom, Square, and PayPal.
Advanced Research aims for broader reports
The other major feature is Advanced Research. Anthropic says it can crawl "hundreds" of internal and external sources to create what the company describes as "more comprehensive" reports on a topic.
Those reports can take anywhere from five to 45 minutes. That longer window is part of the point: Advanced Research is designed to break a request into smaller parts, investigate each one, and then compile the results into a single report.
Advanced Research can also use Claude's expanded connectors. That means it can search across Integrations. In the Claude Desktop app on macOS or Windows, it can also search MCP-connected local drives.
Anthropic says the feature is available through the Research button. When Claude uses information from sources, Anthropic says it provides clear citations that link directly to the original material.
For users, the distinction is straightforward. A normal chatbot answer may be useful for quick drafting or explanation. Advanced Research is aimed at cases where the user wants Claude to inspect multiple sources, organize the work, and show where the information came from.
Why Anthropic is expanding Claude now
Integrations and Advanced Research are part of Anthropic's push to keep pace with competing chatbots including Google Gemini and OpenAI's ChatGPT. The market has been moving quickly toward assistants that can research, reason, connect to external tools, and complete tasks inside work systems.
Anthropic also has large business ambitions. The company reportedly hopes to reach $34.5 billion in revenue in 2027. According to one report, Anthropic's annualized revenue was around $1.4 billion in early March.
That gap helps explain why product expansion matters. More app connections can make Claude more useful inside organizations. More capable research can make it more attractive for subscribers who need deeper reports rather than quick summaries.
The company is also linking these updates to its broader developer strategy. Because Integrations builds on MCP, the system is not limited to a single set of first-party connections. Developers can create and host the app servers that make Claude more useful for particular tools and workflows.
The deep research race is getting crowded
Anthropic is launching Advanced Research into a category that has recently become more competitive. Deep research tools have also appeared across chatbots such as Gemini, Microsoft's Copilot, and xAI's Grok.
These tools are driven by "reasoning" AI models, which can think through problems and fact-check themselves. Those abilities are especially relevant when a chatbot is asked to conduct in-depth research rather than provide a short response.
Claude's earlier Research tool had a different profile. It was among the faster tools in the deep research category, taking around a minute to compile reports. But the results tended to be shallower, partly because Research did not use a reasoning model.
Advanced Research appears to trade some speed for depth. By taking five to 45 minutes and searching across web, enterprise, Integration, and local sources where available, Claude is being positioned for more complex research tasks.
The larger direction is clear from the features Anthropic chose to announce together. Claude is being connected to more apps, given more places to search, and asked to produce work that is grounded in source material. For subscribers on Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, that shift is now available in beta, with Pro access planned soon.