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Claude’s merged chat and Cowork vs. ChatGPT’s Work mode: ChatGPT is faster, Claude is more thorough

Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single interface last week, removing a decision users previously had to make between the two modes. In a comparison against ChatGPT's Work mode, ChatGPT was found to be faster while Claude was more thorough. The post was published by The New Stack.

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When Anthropic merged Claude chat and Cowork into a single interface last week, it removed an increasingly irrelevant decision users

The post Claude’s merged chat and Cowork vs. ChatGPT’s Work mode: ChatGPT is faster, Claude is more thorough appeared first on The New Stack.

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