Anthropic today launched Claude Design, a new product from its Anthropic Labs division that allows users to create polished visual work — designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral — through conversational prompts and fine-grained editing controls. The release, available immediately in research preview to all paid Claude subscribers, is the company’s most aggressive expansion beyond its core language model business and into the application layer that has historically belonged to companies like Figma, Adobe, and Canva.Claude Design is powered by Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic’s most capable generally available vision model, which the company also released today. Anthropic says it is rolling access out gradually throughout the day to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers.The simultaneous launches mark a watershed for Anthropic, whose ambitions now visibly extend from foundation model provider to full-stack product company — one that wants to own the arc from a rough idea to a shipped product. The timing is also significant: Anthropic hit roughly $20 billion in annualized revenue in early March 2026, according to Bloomberg, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025 — and surpassed $30 billion by early April 2026. The company is in early talks with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley about a potential IPO that could come as early as October 2026.How Claude Design turns a text prompt into a working prototypeThe product follows a workflow that Anthropic has designed to feel like a natural creative conversation. Users describe what they need, and Claude generates a first version. From there, refinement happens through a combination of channels: chat-based conversation, inline comments on specific elements, direct text editing, and custom adjustment sliders that Claude itself generates to let users tweak spacing, color, and layout in real time.During onboarding, Claude reads a team’s codebase and design files and builds a design system — colors, typography, and components — that it automatically applies to every subsequent project. Teams can refine the s …
