Anthropic Labs expansion
Anthropic expanded Labs, an incubator for experimental products, with Mike Krieger moving in to build alongside Ben Mann; Ami Vora leads Product.
Formalizes the path that produced Claude Code, MCP, Skills, Claude in Chrome and Cowork, which is to experiment at the frontier, test rough versions with early users, then scale. The post cites Claude Code going from preview to a billion-dollar product in six months and MCP at 100M monthly downloads.
- Date
- Tuesday, 13 January 2026
- Lab
- Anthropic
- Kind
- product
- Access
- app only
An organizational move recorded here because it names the products incubated; later Labs products include Claude Design (2026-04-17).
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