Anthropic Says Its AI Can Clone Enterprise Apps Like Slack

When AI coding tools came into vogue in 2023 and 2024, chief information officers salivated at the idea of using them to develop their own versions of Salesforce and Slack and stop paying a fortune for enterprise apps. But the AI wasn’t accurate or consistent enough to do that.

Now Anthropic is reawakening these app-replacement dreams. In a recent test, Anthropic used its Claude AI model to create a workplace chat app similar to Slack, said Sholto Douglas, the company’s tech lead for reinforcement learning, at The Information’s AI Agenda Live event Tuesday.