Claude Gains Tool Integration: Use PayPal and Zapier in Real Time

0:00We have some massive news out of Anthropic. And right when we thought it couldn't get any crazier with AI and agents, Anthropic is now letting their users connect more apps directly to Claude. And so I view this as kind of the precursor for where we're going to see agents take off in the future, actually integrating your AI model with real tools in the real world. I'll show you some exact breakdowns of products and the apps that you're currently able to connect with Claude and what you're able to do with them, some demos and stuff. So I think this is very interesting. Before we get into that, I wanted to mention for the first time in two and a half years, AIbox.ai, my startup, has officially launched our first product.

0:40It's called the AIbox Playground and it allows you to test out all of the top AI models in one place for$20 a month. So you don't need subscriptions to every single platform. You get them all on one platform, 11 labs for audio, all the best ideogram and open AI and flux for image generation and all of the top text models as well. Reasoning and everything else is in there. So I'm really, really excited. If you go try it out and you have any ideas, we're actively developing and adding new features for it. So if you're like, man, it'd be super awesome if you could do X, Y, and Z, send me a message over on LinkedIn or Twitter.

1:12We're actively adding new features to it. So I'd be super excited to have you try it out as one of our first beta users. There's a link in the description to AIbox.ai. You can go check it out. All right, let's get into what Claude is doing. So it's pretty interesting. This was just recently launched. And this is kind of expanding what they're calling their quote unquote deep research. So their deep research capability that can do a lot more than just a regular chat bot, you know, search the web and do a bunch of different things, is now getting all of these new tools. So essentially, these new integrations are going to be available.

1:46They're in beta right now, but they're going to be for their subscribers to their Claude Max and then also their teams and their enterprise plans. Soon they'll be adding them to the pros. So I think that's most of us that are paying for something are going to get the pro. So that's soon. We don't quite get it yet, but that's OK. I'll explain what it is and you'll you'll be prepped for it. So they also, by the way, in other news, they have added and increased the rate limits for their AI powered coding tool, Claude Code, which is amazing because my company, AI Box, uses Claude Code all the time.

2:16It actually literally has been a lifesaver for us and helped helped us rewrite and fix up and do like hundreds of lines of code. So it's very, very exciting. And so all of this is pretty much part of Anthropic trying to keep up with all the other players, right? We have Google Gemini. We have OpenAI that are rolling out a lot of these really cool features. And so they're trying to keep up with them. Anthropic says, and I mean, I would definitely take this with a grain of salt, but they said that they're trying to get to$34 billion in revenue by 2027. I hate it when these companies have forward projections multiple years into the future, right?

2:50It's 2025. Why are we talking about getting to$34 billion by 2027? that's because currently they're at$1.4 billion. And that's of like early March this year. That was their annualized revenue, AKA like if they, for the next 12 months after March, they were projected to make that much. So if they're pretty much what's happening is they feel like they're, they're probably falling behind open AI. So they're trying to project big numbers like open AI has to say, look, in two years, we want to hit this$30 billion revenue target pretty much. And if we do all these cool things and we have all the integrations and we're the number one company, it's totally possible.

3:25So I'm not throwing any shade at them. I do love Anthropik. They're doing a lot of innovative things. I just, you know, the double did the two years in the future projections. I just think maybe give us your projections for what you think you can do this year or next year. Okay. So in any case, the integrations, what's going on with them? So this is all building on what Anthropik is calling their MCP protocol. This is something that they built that the entire industry has adopted, but it essentially lets different models, different AI models get data from a whole bunch of different sources. So, you know, different business tools, different content repositories, app development environments.

4:03So essentially their new integrations, it's going to kind of tap into their MCP system and it's going to let developers create and host apps and app servers that essentially are going to help Claude's capabilities. So yeah, it's going to be pretty interesting. This is what they said specifically in kind of their, in their blog post about it. They said, when you connect your tool to Claude, it gains deep context about your work and understanding project histories, task statuses, and organizational knowledge, and can take actions across every surface. So who actually is integrating? And this is going to give us a good idea of what the heck you can actually do with this thing.

4:37So there's a couple different partners that are right off the bat coming into their integrations. Number one, Atlassian, obviously huge. Number two, Zapier, obviously also huge because they have integrations with a lot of different things. Cloudflare, which is going to be more of your backend stuff. Intercom, which is kind of customer support. Square, which is payments and also PayPal. So the Square and PayPal are kind of interesting integrations, actually making payments, charging for stuff. This is very interesting, getting these AIs to be able to do that. But essentially all of these are going to expand what it's currently able to do.

5:13Atlassian is going to let you summarize and create pages in their Atlassian Confluence workspace, which is interesting. Zapier is going to integrate and allow you to connect your apps to your automation workflows, which I think is actually quite useful. Maybe one of the most useful integrations there would be the Zapier one, in my opinion. They have a demo where essentially you're asking it, you know, what's on my calendar? So it has a pop-up from Zapier that's like, hey, you know, they want to check your calendar via zapier do you allow it you can allow it it goes and pulls it in so because your zapier can be connected to a ton of different things it's it's actually you're connected to much more than you'd think so anyways in their demo it shows you what's on your calendar if the person's like hey tell me more about my meeting with lars and it's like okay i'm gonna look up more information on lars and so it like it's like permission to access the internet and you're like okay allow it so then it's going and like searching on the internet um and then it's like here's what I found about Lars and it has like this breakdown about who this guy is, what his position is, what his company size is, and all this kind of information about him.

6:17So I think this is a very useful tool and their Zapier integration makes it so that beyond just like, it's not like, oh, cool, you can integrate with five softwares. Like with Zapier, you can do a lot more, right? Like it's checking your calendar, it's searching the web, it's doing a bunch of really interesting things. So with all that being said, one of the other new features specifically that they've added and I kind of touched on it about the searching the web thing is their advanced research. Essentially, it's just going to allow Claude to go and search through the web and other things. But one of the big things is that it actually allows you to look at internal and external sources to get what they call, quote unquote, more comprehensive reports on a topic.

6:59So anyways, it's anywhere from, you know, deep dives. It's interesting because they can search through the Claude desktop app and actually see what's on your computer. So it can search through your local drives, which is really interesting. No one else is doing this. And so I think Claude was smart and built an actual app you can have on your computer. So it's looking through what's on your actual computer. You obviously have different softwares to look through what's on the internet. Claude has recently added that. And then what they've actually said about this is, quote, with its new ability to do more complex research available when you toggle the research button.

7:40Claude breaks down your request into smaller parts, investigating each deeply before compiling a comprehensive report. When Claude incorporates information from sources, it provides clear citations with links directly to the original material. So this is pretty useful. It's, you know, they wanted to get around the problem of like grabbing information and not citing the source. People got quite mad about that when other A models did that. So this is their solution, but kind of everybody's doing this. there's been a whole bunch of these deep research tools the one i've used a lot has been grok but i know that open ai copilot and gemini are also all doing that um so and of course uh you know chad gpt is kind of what everyone's using to do this but um it this you know this isn't a brand new thing but it's kind of cool when you start tying it together with some of their other tools like their integration so it's actually can you know beyond just looking on the web it's like you look on your computer or your company files or your company documents i think this is all really useful.

8:34They were, you know, previously Anthropics research tool was one of the fastest. I think right now it's people are saying, or, you know, okay, I'll give you a quote from TechCrunch. It's like, but the results tended to be shallower in part because research didn't employ a reasoning model. So one of the big criticisms that this is getting is beyond the deep research, it doesn't necessarily have a didn't at the time of this have a reasoning model that would i mean i guess the big difference here is like it could do research and get a lot of in-depth content but the reasoning models essentially run every single output that it generates through a series of questions like reasoning questions to verify their accuracy so a lot of the other models are doing this and some people are saying anthropics not doing this is probably something they'll crank out here pretty soon um and i think especially with their integrations this tool is very very useful, but it is good to know that that's not something currently baked in.

9:29So it's faster than other models. Like it can get you your research report done quicker, but doesn't always mean it's like as accurate. It might be 10 % less accurate than some others. And that's just a random number I'm throwing out there. But in any case, very cool. I'm super excited about the ability to connect a lot of these different apps, especially Zapier to Anthropic. There's going to be a ton of cool things coming out. And this is, like I said at the beginning, a precursor to what we're going to see agents. They put this out here first. We start using it. We start integrating with apps.

9:56And once the agents come around, they're going to be able to plug into either our accounts or you'll be able to sign up with new accounts. But it's using essentially all of the same systems that this is built. And it's able to go out and use all of these connected accounts. A lot of people are freaking out because MasterCard and Visa are building a system that essentially allows you to connect your payments to AI models and give AI models credit cards pretty much. So this is kind of one of those things in that direction. And it's definitely very interesting. Hey, thanks so much for tuning into the podcast.

10:22If you learned anything about Anthropic and what they're doing, I would love it if you'd leave a review. And again, make sure you go check out AIbox.ai, the project I've been working on for the last two years that has finally launched our beta. I'm super excited about that and I hope that you love it. Thanks so much for tuning in and I will catch you next time.