Our models are evolving at a rapid clip, and each new release brings another leap in capabilities. Building product experiences around these emerging capabilities requires different motions working in partnership: tinkering and experimenting at the edge of what Claude can do, testing unpolished versions with early users to find what works, and taking what lands and scaling it into products our customers can rely on.<\/p>\n
This approach has produced Claude Code, which grew from a research preview to a billion-dollar product<\/a> in six months; the Model Context Protocol (MCP) which, at 100M monthly downloads<\/a>, has become the industry standard for connecting AI to tools and data; Skills<\/a>, Claude in Chrome<\/a>, and Cowork<\/a>, which launched as a research preview yesterday to bring Claude\u2019s agentic capabilities to desktop.<\/p>\n Today we\u2019re building on this approach with the expansion of Labs, a team focused on incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude\u2019s capabilities. Mike Krieger\u2014who co-founded Instagram and has spent the past two years as Anthropic\u2019s Chief Product Officer\u2014is joining Labs to build alongside Ben Mann. Ami Vora\u2014who joined Anthropic at the end of 2025\u2014will lead the Product organization, partnering closely with Rahul Patil, our CTO, to scale the Claude experiences that millions of users rely on every day.<\/p>\n \u201cThe speed of advancement in AI demands a different approach to how we build, how we organize, and where we focus. Labs gives us room to break the mold and explore,\u201d said Daniela Amodei, President of Anthropic. \u201cWe now have the right structure in place to support the most critical motions for our product organization\u2014discovering experimental products at the frontier of Claude\u2019s capabilities, and scaling them responsibly to meet the needs of our enterprise customers and growing user base.\u201d<\/p>\n