Claude Cowork Moves to the Cloud: What Anthropic’s Architecture Shift Means for How You Work with AI Agents
Reading Time: 5 minutesAnthropic has shifted Claude Cowork’s model inference and virtual machine from users’ local devices to cloud-hosted sandboxes, eliminating battery drain and allowing tasks to continue when a laptop is closed. Non-technical professionals should note that this introduces internet dependency and raises data residency questions not yet fully addressed in the available source material.
