Claude can now plug directly into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton

Anthropic has launched a set of connectors for Claude that allow the AI chatbot to tap into popular creative software, including Adobe’s Creative Cloud apps, Affinity, Blender, Ableton, Autodesk, and more.

Claude can now plug directly into Photoshop, Blender, and Ableton

Anthropic is also giving the Blender Foundation a load of cash to help the software stay free and open-source.

This marks the company’s latest efforts to break into the creative industry following its launch of Claude Design earlier this month. The new connectors — which enable Claude to access apps, retrieve data, and take actions within connected services — are “designed to make it easier to use Claude for creative work,” according to Anthropic, and can be used for specific functions in each app.

The Adobe for creativity connector can draw from Creative Cloud apps like Photoshop, Premiere, and Express to “bring images, videos, and designs to life” in Claude, for example. The connector for Ableton allows Claude to answer questions by sourcing information directly from the music software’s official documentation, while the Blender integration gives the 3D modelling app’s Python API a natural-language interface. You can read the full breakdown for every connector on Anthropic’s blog.

“Claude can’t replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working — faster and more ambitious ideation, a more expansive skillset, and the ability for creatives to take on larger-scale projects,” Anthropic said. “AI can also help shoulder the parts of the creative process that eat up time by handling repetitive tasks and eliminating manual toil.”

As part of this announcement, Anthropic has also become a Corporate Patron of the Blender Development Fund, which helps to support ongoing development of the open-source software, joining other big sponsors including Netflix, Epic, and Wacom. That membership means Anthropic will be handing Blender at least €240,000 (around $281,000) every year, something Blender says will help it to “keep pursuing projects independently, and to focus on building tools for artists and creators.”