Anthropic, known for its focus on AI safety and reliability, made a significant announcement on May 1, 2025: its leading language model, Claude, now gains the ability to "connect to your world." This update marks a substantial expansion of the model's interactive capabilities, allowing it to interact with external tools, data, and services under user control.
The new functionality enables Claude to go beyond its pre-trained knowledge and interact with real-time information and specific tools. Developers and users will be able to grant Claude access to selected APIs, databases, enterprise systems, or even personal applications like calendars or email clients. This transforms Claude into an even more powerful and flexible assistant capable of performing complex, multi-step tasks.
Key aspects of the new "connect to your world" capability include: Tool Use: Claude will be able to use external tools and APIs to perform specific actions, such as booking tickets, making calculations with a calculator, searching for information in specific databases, or interacting with project management software. Access to Current Information: Depending on the permissions granted, Claude can access the latest information from the internet or other sources, making its responses more relevant and timely. Personalization and Automation: Users will be able to configure Claude to perform routine tasks by integrating it with their personal or work tools, for example, for sorting emails, creating reports based on current data, or managing schedules.
Anthropic places particular emphasis on safety and control aspects. All interactions with external tools and data will occur only with explicit user permission, with transparent control mechanisms over which resources Claude has access to and what actions it can perform. The company underscores that these new capabilities are designed in accordance with their responsible AI principles.
This functionality is expected to be gradually rolled out to developers via the Claude API, as well as to users on the claude.ai web interface. This opens new perspectives for creating more intelligent, autonomous, and useful applications based on Anthropic's technologies.