Anthropic Releases New Research Feature for Claude

Anthropic, the AI startup behind the Claude family of models, announced on Tuesday a new ‘Research’ feature. This feature searches multiple sources of information – both internal and external web sources- to deliver comprehensive answers.

“This approach delivers thorough answers, complete with easy-to-check citations so you can trust Claude's findings,” stated Anthropic in a blog post. The company also mentioned that the feature will examine user queries from ‘different angles’ and systematically addresses open questions. 

This finally marks Anthropic’s entry into deep research territory, joining Google, OpenAI, xAI, and Perplexity. 

Today we’re launching Research, alongside a new Google Workspace integration.

Claude now brings together information from your work and the web. pic.twitter.com/FfHXJLCJf7

— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) April 15, 2025

In addition, the company announced that Claude can now integrate with Google’s Gmail and Calendar. This way, Claude can search emails and review documents to prevent users from having to manually provide context about their daily tasks. 

“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,” said Anthropic. Claude will also provide inline citations to help users easily verify the information source. 

Research on Claude is available in ‘early beta’ for Max, Team and Enterprise Plans in the United States, Brazil and Japan. The Google Workspace integration is available in beta to all paid users. 

“In the coming weeks, we'll expand the range of content sources available and the ability for Claude to do research in more depth,” added Anthropic. 

Recently, Anthropic introduced new monthly Max plans starting at $100 per month, reaching up to $200. The $100 plan offers five times the usage of the existing $20 Monthly Pro plan, while the $200 plan provides 20 times the usage. Along with increased usage limits, subscribers to the Max plan will benefit from priority access to the latest features and models.

Last month, the company released the Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a hybrid model with enhanced thinking capabilities. Artificial Analysis, a platform that independently analyses AI models, referred to it as the best non-reasoning model for coding.

Furthermore, Anthropic plans to unveil a new version of Claude 3.7 Sonnet with a 500k context window, a significant increase from the current 200k capacity. TestingCatalog identified evidence of this in feature flags.