LaunchAI AgentsOctober 5, 2026

Anthropic's Cowork moves model inference and VM to the cloud

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The new Cowork runs model inference and its VM in the cloud, giving each session its own sandbox that doesn't share state with others; the desktop app handles file access when the VM needs something on the user's device. Anthropic's Felix Rieseberg said the old local VM cost users disk, battery, and performance, and stopped work when the laptop closed.

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