Ascannio/Shutterstock There's a difference in what people use Claude and ChatGPT for. According to the Anthropic Economic Index report from March 2026, 42 percent of Claude conversations revolved around personal usage and 45 percent were related to work (the remainder was coursework). A similar report by OpenAI states that 70 percent of ChatGPT usage is non-work-related.
Claude Cowork, which came out in January 2026, can perform knowledge-based tasks on your behalf: I mostly use it to organize my files. You can also create instruction bundles called skills that can be invoked mid-conversation