Anthropic gives Claude a permanent seat in your Slack channels
Anthropic has integrated its AI assistant Claude directly into Slack, allowing users to add Claude as a permanent member of any channel where it can be mentioned, answer questions, and assist with tasks without leaving the platform.
Background
- Anthropic is the AI company behind Claude, a large language model (LLM) that competes with OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini. It was founded by former OpenAI employees and is backed by billions in funding from Google and others.
- Slack is a popular workplace messaging and collaboration platform owned by Salesforce. It competes with Microsoft Teams.
- This announcement means Anthropic has released a native Slack app that lets users "@Claude" directly inside Slack channels — not just in a separate chat interface. The AI can read messages, respond, and be tagged like a human team member.
- The move signals a push by AI vendors to embed their models directly into the tools knowledge workers already use, rather than requiring them to visit a separate website or app. It also intensifies competition with OpenAI, which already offers Slack integrations for ChatGPT.