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This update shifts Cowork's architecture to execute model inference and the Anthropic-provided VM entirely in the cloud, eliminating local hardware overhead while maintaining sandboxed session isolation. By offloading these heavy computational tasks, the solution addresses critical constraints regarding battery life, disk space, and device availability without sacrificing the tool-calling capabilities previously enabled by a local virtual machine.
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Simon Willison1 min read

The "old" version of Cowork runs model inference in the cloud, executing tool calls in an Anthropic-provided VM we shipped to your computer. We added the VM for capability,…

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