Anthropic’s Claude Can Now Create PDFs, Excel Spreadsheets, and PowerPoint Slides

IBL News | New York

Anthropic announced this month that Claude will be able to create and edit PDFs, Excel spreadsheets, PowerPoint slides, documents, presentations, or projects within the chat interface.

Users describe what they want to create, and the chatbot will output the file. Also, they can upload the content they want to edit or ask it to generate.

Once it is done, users can download it or save it to their Google Drive.

The service will be available to Max, Team, and Enterprise plan users.

Some examples Anthropic provided included editing an essay and outputting it in a well-formatted PDF, as well as transforming raw data into cleaner projects with analysis, charts, and written insights.

Anthropic said it enabled Claude to carry out this feature by giving it access to a private compute environment where it writes code and runs programs.

“Over the past year, we’ve seen Claude move from answering questions to completing entire projects, and now we’re making that power more accessible. We’ve given Claude access to a private computer environment where it can write code and run programs to produce the files and analyses you need,” said the company.