Anthropic has opened a waitlist for Claude for Excel, promising spreadsheet devotees that its LLM will be able to understand their entire workbook.

Forty years since its launch, Excel is the productivity app that keeps the world ticking over, or the office cockroach that just won't die, depending on your point of view.

According to research by Acuity Training, two-thirds of all office workers use Excel at least once an hour, while over a third of total office worker time is spent on Excel.

Many of the "models" that financial whizzes rely on – and blithely refer to during earnings calls or presentations – are really nothing more than sophisticated spreadsheets.

So what better way for Anthropic to embed AI into corporate workflows than to take them over cell-by-cell?

Though that won't h

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