Anthropic introduces “Artifacts”: Building interactive AI apps directly within Claude
June 25, 2025 – Anthropic today unveiled a significant new feature within its Claude AI application: the ability for users to build, host, and share interactive AI-powered applications, known as “artifacts.” This innovation aims to simplify and accelerate AI app development by removing the traditional complexities and costs associated with deployment and scaling.
What are Claude-powered Artifacts?
Artifacts are essentially real code generated by Claude that orchestrates complex AI functionalities. These artifacts interact with Claude via an API, transforming them into fully functional, AI-powered applications. Developers can readily view, modify, and share this code, fostering a collaborative and transparent development environment.
How they work:
Creating a Claude-powered app is designed to be remarkably intuitive. Users describe their desired application, and Claude generates the initial code. Claude can then debug and refine its own code based on user feedback, enabling rapid iteration. Once an app is ready, it can be instantly shared via a link, bypassing traditional deployment processes. A key economic benefit for developers is that when someone uses a Claude-powered app, their API usage counts against their existing Claude subscription, not the developer’s. This means developers incur no costs for user usage and are freed from managing API keys. Claude also manages technical details like prompt engineering, error handling, and orchestration logic, allowing developers to focus solely on their ideas.
Benefits and initial applications:
This new capability offers several advantages, including faster iteration cycles, reduced deployment complexity, and a cost-effective sharing model. Early adopters have already leveraged interactive artifacts to create diverse applications such as:
- AI-powered games with intelligent and adaptive non-player characters (NPCs).
- Personalized learning tools that adapt to individual skill levels.
- Data analysis applications allowing natural language queries on uploaded CSV files.
- Writing assistants for various content creation needs.
- Agent workflows that orchestrate multiple Claude calls to tackle complex tasks.
This beta feature is currently accessible to users on Free, Pro, and Max plans, marking a significant stride in making AI app development more accessible and efficient.
For further details, please visit the official announcement on Anthropic’s News Page.
