Anthropic brings Claude Code to the web

Summary

Anthropic launched a web app on Monday for its viral AI coding assistant, Claude Code, which lets developers create and manage several AI coding agents from their browser. Claude Code for web is now rolling out to subscribers to Anthropic’s $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100 and $200-per-month Max plans. Pro and Max users can access Claude Code on the web by navigating to claude.ai (the same website for Anthropic’s consumer chatbot) and clicking into the “Code” tab. The launch marks Anthropic’s latest attempt to evolve Claude Code beyond a command-line interface (CLI) tool that developers access from a terminal. By putting Claude Code on the web, Anthropic hopes developers will spin up AI coding agents in more places. It’s increasingly competitive for tech companies trying to make their AI coding tools stand out. While Microsoft’s GitHub Copilot once dominated the space, Cursor, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic now have highly performant AI coding tools of their own — many of them already available on the web. That said, Claude Code is arguably one of the most popular. Anthropic’s flagship coding tool has grown 10x in users since its broader launch in May, and the product now accounts for more than $500 million of the company’s revenue on an annualized basis. Anthropic Product Manager Cat Wu tells TechCrunch in an interview that she attributes a large part of Claude Code’s success to the company’s AI models, which have become a favorite among developers in recent years. However, Wu also says the Claude Code team deliberately tries to “sprinkle in some fun” to the product wherever they can. Wu said that Anthropic will continue to put Claude Code in more places, but the terminal will likely remain the home base for their AI coding product. “As we look forward, one of our key focuses is making sure the CLI product is the most intelligent and customizable way for you to use coding agents,” said Wu. “But we’re continuing to put Claude Code everywhere, helping it me...