Anthropic Announces Claude Research, Integration with Google Workspace

Anthropic announced two huge updates to its Claude AI models: A new Research capability and deep integration with Google Workspace, Gmail, Calendar, and Docs.

“We’re continuing to expand the context that Claude has access to, as well as the kinds of outputs you can generate with Claude to support your personal and professional work,” the Anthropic announcement explains. “Today, we’re introducing two new capabilities that make Claude a more informed and capable collaborator — Research and a Google Workspace integration that connects your email, calendar, and documents to Claude.”

These new features follow a late February announcement, tied to the release of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code, in which Anthropic began expanding the context capabilities of its models by integrating with third-party services, key among them GitHub Copilot. But today’s expansions are quite a bit more mainstream and allow Claude to better compete with Google Gemini, Microsoft Copilot, and OpenAI ChatGPT.

Research lets Claude work across your internal work context and the web simultaneously, and agentically, by conducting multiple searches so that it can work through problems systematically. Then, it provides comprehensive answers with citations in what Anthropic describes as a unique “balance of speed and quality.”

Claude also integrates with Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs through Google Workspace, so the models can securely access your email, schedule, and documents, eliminating the need to upload files or prompt it with specific information.

“Ask Claude to pull together meeting notes from last week, identify action items from follow-up email threads, and search relevant documents for additional context,” Anthropic says. “Claude brings these insights directly to you, eliminating hours of manual work and letting you focus on strategic planning instead of information gathering. Claude will provide inline citations that you can use to verify the source so that you can trust Claude is working from the most recent context.”

These features are commingled, meaning you can use Research against your work data. And those with Claude Enterprise can optionally enable Google Docs cataloging to improve the model’s retrieval quality and accuracy via a “specialized index of your organization’s documents.” The service provides “enterprise-grade security that keeps your data within your control [and] maintains the confidentiality of your organization’s knowledge while delivering precise answers.”

Anthropic says it will expand these capabilities to additional third-party services in the coming weeks.

Research is now available in early beta for Claude Max, Team, and Enterprise plans in the United States, Japan, and Brazil, while Google Workspace integration is available in beta to all paid users.