Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence company, announced that its large model assistant Claude is now directly connected to Adobe Creative Cloud applications such as Photoshop and Premiere, as well as a series of mainstream creative software such as Affinity, Blender, Ableton, and Autodesk through a new set of "connectors." This move continues the company’s strategic steps to penetrate the creative industry after launching Claude Design earlier this month, aiming to make it easier for creative practitioners to call on AI capabilities in a familiar software environment.
According to reports, these "creative connectors" allow Claude to access applications, retrieve data, and perform specific operations in associated services, thereby providing assistance around the specific scenarios of each software. For example, the Adobe connector for creators can call applications such as Photoshop, Premiere, and Express, allowing users to "call out" images, videos, and design content and process them in Claude's conversational interface. Officials claim that this helps "make images, videos, and designs truly move" in conversations. The connector for the music production software Ableton can extract information directly from its official documentation to answer user questions, explain functions, or guide operating procedures. The Blender integration provides a natural language interface for the Python API of this 3D modeling software. Users can use Claude to debug scenes, modify object properties in batches, and even build new tools in conversations, thereby reducing the burden of handwritten scripts.
Anthropic emphasized in a statement that Claude cannot replace human taste and imagination, but it can "open up new ways of working," including faster and more ambitious ideation processes, a broader skill set, and helping creatives take on larger-scale projects. The company also stated that AI can also share a large number of time-consuming and repetitive tasks in the creative process, reducing "physical" manual operations, allowing creators to focus more on conception and aesthetic judgment.
In addition to product updates, Anthropic also announced that it will become one of the enterprise-level sponsors of the Blender Development Fund to support the continued development of this open source 3D software. The fund has previously received support from large companies such as Netflix, Epic, and Wacom. The addition of Ansopick is seen as an important signal for it to further support the open source community in the creative tool ecosystem.