Anthropic’s AI chatbot Claude can now draw its own explanations… literally.
The San Francisco-based company this week rolled out a beta feature that lets Claude generate interactive charts, diagrams, and visualizations directly inside chat conversations, no code required, no side panel to hunt for.
Ask it how compound interest grows over time, and a curve appears right there in the chat. Ask about the periodic table, and you get a clickable version you can explore element by element.
Claude has had what Anthropic calls “artifacts” for a while: polished, downloadable tools and documents that open in a side panel. But this is different. These new visuals are built for the moment: they live within the conversation itself, shifting and evolving as the discussion progresses, and disappearing when they’re no longer relevant.
According to Anthropic, the feature grew out of something the company previewed last fall called “Imagine with Claude,” an early experiment in letting the AI build visuals in real time. What’s arriving now is that concept, matured and opened to everyone, including users on the free tier.
The feature will be on by default. Claude decides on its own when a visual would help, though users can also prompt it directly. Anthropic suggests asking things like “draw this as a diagram” or “visualize how this might change over time.” After Claude builds something, users can ask it to adjust it, zoom in on it, or take the concept further.
Staying competitive
The timing puts Anthropic in a crowded moment. OpenAI launched its own interactive visualization feature for math and science in ChatGPT just days earlier, and Google’s Gemini has been offering interactive educational images for some time.
Anthropic’s approach focuses on making these visuals feel like a natural part of the flow of a conversation. The AI will often decide on its own when a chart would be more helpful than a paragraph.
The visualizations are one piece of a broader push to make Claude’s responses feel more dynamic.
Earlier this year, the company added purpose-built formats for things like recipes and weather, so a recipe comes with proper ingredients and steps, and a weather query surfaces an actual visual. Claude also now lets users interact with apps like Figma, Canva, and Slack without leaving the conversation.
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