Anthropic’s Claude is a key rival to ChatGPT and Gemini, even though it’s been trailing these chatbots when it comes to headline-grabbing new features. But Anthropic is slowly getting to a point where it can claim feature parity with rivals, especially after this week’s big Claude update.

Claude now has a Research mode, which is Anthropic’s version of ChatGPT (and Gemini) Deep Research. Interestingly, Anthropic gave Research a big twist, claiming its AI can come up with deep research results much faster than alternatives.

Also important is Claude’s support for Google Workspace, which allows the AI to securely look at the contents of your Gmail, Google Calendar, and Google Docs apps to assist with work-related questions.

Anthropic explained in a blog post that Research allows Claude to “search across both your internal work context and the web to help you make decisions and take action faster than before.”

That sounds a lot like ChatGPT Deep Research, a feature I’ve come to use all the time for more complex questions. Deep Research give me good results after ChatGPT searches for information and reasons through my prompt. The results can take several minutes to be generated, and the detailed report then offers links to sources.

Claude will seemingly do the same thing with Research, but Anthropic says the AI will be faster by employing an agentic behavior, where the AI conducts several searches at the same time: