Artificial intelligence lab Anthropic introduced ten new enterprise plugins on Tuesday, enabling the integration of its technology into customers' core operational workflows. This launch comes just weeks after the company's previous product release caused significant stock price declines for traditional software firms.

The San Francisco-based startup stated that its plugins are now applicable across various sectors: for investment banking, such as deal review; for wealth management, such as portfolio analysis; and for human resources tasks, such as ensuring new employee onboarding materials align with corporate branding and policy requirements.

Anthropic also promoted additional plugins covering private equity, engineering, and design.

The lab, which is backed by Alphabet's Google and Amazon, also announced it would launch features to connect its Claude AI with popular business tools like Google Calendar and Gmail.

The flurry of releases this year indicates that Anthropic is aggressively competing for a lead in the lucrative enterprise market, selling increasingly autonomous AI products to customers, amid widespread market anticipation of an eventual initial public offering.

Anthropic faces competition from Google itself, OpenAI, and Elon Musk's xAI, among others. The startup has previously stated that it has not yet made a decision regarding going public.

Last month, a legal plugin released by Anthropic erased $830 billion in market value from global software and services stocks over six trading days, including some of the company's own partners. This occurred as investors feared that AI-driven automation could erode a significant portion of these companies' revenue streams.

Scott White, Head of Enterprise Products at Anthropic, stated that the goal of launching these features is to enable Claude to deliver better outcomes for clients, not to replace them.

He said in an interview, "This product is not about taking control of all workflows. We provide the infrastructure and intelligence capabilities, allowing partners or customers to integrate their own business knowledge, professional expertise, trusted relationships, and customer resources."

Anthropic mentioned that the new plugins were developed in collaboration with partners including the London Stock Exchange Group and FactSet. The company also noted that firms such as Thomson Reuters, which owns Reuters, and RBC Wealth Management in Canada, are using AI agents powered by Anthropic's technology.

Anthropic added that enterprises can also build and manage their own proprietary plugins.