Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude can now write and execute JavaScript code.

Anthropic has launched a new analytics tool that enables its Claude chatbot to write and run JavaScript code. This tool, currently only available in preview, allows Claude to perform calculations and analyze data from files such as spreadsheets and PDFs.

Claude in practice

The analysis tool allows Claude to perform complex calculations, process data and develop ideas before providing an answer. For example, a product manager can upload sales data and ask Claude to analyze performance by country, and an engineer can enter financial data and get an overview of trends. Although Claude was already able to perform similar tasks, the results could not be verified mathematically. This resulted in inaccurate answers.

Google offers a similar feature with its Gemini models, Code Execution, which generates and executes Python code. Recently, the tech giant launched Gemini Code Assist Enterprise, which provides coding support. Thanks to OpenAI’s advanced data analysis, their models can also write and run code.

The analysis tool has been available to all Claude users via the web interface since Thursday. To use the tool, users can log in to Claude.ai.

To write code, you preferably also need a PC. Anthropic is also testing another new feature that will allow Claude to work independently with a PC. Claude can, among other things, fill out digital forms for you and search for the necessary information in local files and web applications.