Anthropic ZDNET's key takeaways Anthropic's Claude can now create PDFs, slides, and spreadsheets. File creation is available to Max, Team, and Enterprise users. Pro users will get access in the upcoming weeks. AI chatbots such as Anthropic's Claude have always been helpful co-creators for documents, spreadsheets, presentations, or projects you are working on. However, this typically involved you having to copy and paste the text over -- until now. On Tuesday, Anthropic announced Claude will be able to create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slides, and PDFs within the chat interface. Now, all you have to do is describe what you want it to create, and it will get to work, outputting the file. File creation As soon as I read the news, I could think of many instances in which this would be helpful. For example, if you are having it edit an essay, when you are satisfied, you could ask it to output in a PDF format that meets the assignment requirements, such as "Double-spaced, Times New Roman, header," which typically takes some time to do alone. Also: Anthropic will start training Claude on user data - but you don't have to share yours Some examples Anthropic provided included turning raw data into cleaner projects with analysis, charts, and written insights; building spreadsheets without having to worry about formulas; and transforming your content from one format to the other, for example, a PDF into Slides. Anthropic said it enabled Claude to carry out this feature by giving it access to a private compute environment where it writes code and runs the programs necessary to carry out its tasks. Who can access (and how to) The file creation feature is currently available to Max, Team, and Enterprise plan users. However, the company said that Pro users will get access in the upcoming weeks. To access the feature, you have to manually turn it on in settings by clicking "Upgraded file creation and analysis" under the experimental category under features in Settings. Also: Anthropic's AI agent can now automate Canva, Asana, Figma and more - here's how it works Then you can either upload the content you want to edit or ask it to generate it for you. Once it is done, you can download it or save it to your Google Drive. The company cautioned at the end of the release that the feature gives Claude access to the internet to both create and analyze your files, which "may put your data at risk." Furthermore, the company encouraged users to "monitor chats closely when using this feature." Want to follow my work? Add ZDNET as a trusted source on Google.