Anthropic's Cowork moves model inference and virtual machines to the cloud
Quoting Felix Rieseberg
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What happened
Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg explained that the old version of Cowork ran model inference in the cloud but executed tool calls in an Anthropic VM delivered with the desktop app. Users disliked the disk, battery, and performance costs of a local VM, and they also disliked work stopping when they closed their laptops.
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