Claude: New Connectors for Blender, Adobe & more Apfelpatient

Anthropic is expanding its AI model Claude for creatives – with connections to Blender, Adobe, Ableton and more.

AI models are no longer just for developers and office workers. Anthropic, the company behind Claude, is now focusing more on creative professionals. With a whole suite of new connectors, Claude can be directly integrated into some of the most important programs in the creative industry – from 3D graphics and music production to live visuals. This is a clear strategic move: Anthropic is positioning Claude not just as a chatbot, but as a co-pilot for entire workflows.

These nine new connections are available

Anthropic, together with partners such as Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and Splice, today released nine new connectors. These enable Claude to work directly with professional creative software. Here's an overview:

Ableton: Accesses the official product documentation for Live and Push and provides well-founded answers for both production environments.
Adobe for Creativity: Brings images, videos and designs to life and accesses over 50 tools from the Creative Cloud apps, including Photoshop, Premiere and Express.
Affinity by Canva: Automates recurring tasks in professional creative workflows – such as batch processing of image adjustments, layer renaming and file exports – and can even generate custom functions directly in the app.
Autodesk Fusion: Designers and engineers with a Fusion subscription can create and customize 3D models through conversation with Claude.
Blender: Provides a natural language interface to Blender's Python API. This allows users to explore complex setups and access the Blender documentation more easily.
Resolume Arena and Resolume Wire: VJs and live visual artists can control Arena, Avenue and Wire in real time via voice – ideal for live performances and AV productions.
SketchUp: A conversation with Claude becomes the starting point for 3D modeling. Describe a room, a piece of furniture, or a terrain – and then open the result in SketchUp.
Splice: Music producers gain direct access from Claude to Splice's extensive sample catalog of royalty-free sounds.

What makes the Blender integration special

Anthropic takes the integration with Blender a step further. The Blender developers built the MCP connector themselves, making it officially available for Claude. 3D artists can use it to analyze and debug entire Blender scenes or write their own scripts to apply changes to multiple objects simultaneously. Through Blender's Python API, Claude can even integrate new tools directly into Blender's user interface.

Anthropic has also announced that it will join the Blender Development Fund as a patron. With this, the AI company will financially support the further development of the free, open-source 3D software. Since Blender relies on the open MCP standard, other large AI models will also be able to connect to Blender in the future – a clear advantage for the entire open-source community.

What the new connectors are specifically useful for

The range of use cases is remarkable. In the Adobe workflow, for example, Claude can suggest image editing steps, automate video editing routines, or prepare designs in Express. With Ableton, the model provides targeted assistance without requiring producers to manually search through the official documentation. Affinity users benefit from automated routine tasks that can save many hours of work in practice.

Things get particularly exciting in the live performance sector: Resolume Arena and Wire allow visual effects for concerts, club nights, or stage shows to be controlled in real time via voice command. This fundamentally changes the way VJs work – instead of preparing complex macros, a single spoken command will suffice. The Splice connector also has enormous potential: Music producers can describe suitable samples during the writing process, instead of laboriously searching for them in a browser.

Anthropic consistently expands upon Claude's work

Today's release is part of a series of enhancements that Anthropic has introduced in recent weeks. In mid-April, Claude Opus 4.7, Anthropic's current flagship model, was released, specifically optimized for advanced software development. A few days later, a redesigned Claude Code followed, featuring a new routines function that automates repetitive tasks. At the end of April, connectors for Spotify and numerous other services were added.

The strategy is clear: Anthropic aims to transform Claude from a purely linguistic model into a fully networked assistant that operates within the daily work environment. By venturing into the creative sector, Anthropic is opening itself up to a new target group – beyond the typical tech and business users.

Claude for creatives – the most important things at a glance

Anthropic has expanded Claude with nine new connectors that integrate the AI model directly into key creative applications. The list of supported applications ranges from Blender and Autodesk Fusion to Adobe Creative Cloud and Affinity, and on to Ableton, Splice, SketchUp, and Resolume. The Blender integration is particularly noteworthy: Anthropic is now also an official patron of the Blender Development Fund. This opens up a new level of AI-powered productivity for Mac users – deeply integrated into the applications that are already standard on macOS. (Image: Shutterstock / Samuel Boivin)