Anthropic has moved Cowork's model inference and virtual machine to the cloud, with each session running in its own sandbox that does not share state with other sessions. Felix Rieseberg said the change addresses user complaints about local disk, battery, and performance costs, and work stopping when laptops close. The desktop app now handles file access when the cloud VM needs device files, enabling phone use and continuous work.
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