Introducing Labs

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.

This approach has produced Claude Code, which grew from a research preview to a billion-dollar product in six months; the Model Context Protocol (MCP) which, at 100M monthly downloads, has become the industry standard for connecting AI to tools and data; Skills, Claude in Chrome, and Cowork, which launched as a research preview yesterday to bring Claude’s agentic capabilities to desktop.

Today we’re building on this approach with the expansion of Labs, a team focused on incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities. Mike Krieger—who co-founded Instagram and has spent the past two years as Anthropic’s Chief Product Officer—is joining Labs to build alongside Ben Mann. Ami Vora—who joined Anthropic at the end of 2025—will lead the Product organization, partnering closely with Rahul Patil, our CTO, to scale the Claude experiences that millions of users rely on every day.

“The 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,” said Daniela Amodei, President of Anthropic. “We now have the right structure in place to support the most critical motions for our product organization—discovering experimental products at the frontier of Claude’s capabilities, and scaling them responsibly to meet the needs of our enterprise customers and growing user base.”

We're hiring builders with a track record of creating products people love and shaping emerging technology with care. If you’d like to build with us at the very frontier of AI capabilities, we want to hear from you.