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Where Nova is strong

You can bring a Claude key into Nova. Around that key, Nova is the desk: calendar and mail after a card, pointing, and a local model if you want one.

Where the other goes further

Claude’s own app is the better place when the job is a long document in their window.

Side by side

• Where it sits

  Nova On the desk.

  Claude In Anthropic’s desktop app.

• Before a write

  Nova A card, then your yes.

  Claude You send the chat yourself.

• The model

  Nova A Claude key you bring, or a local model.

  Claude Claude, in their app.

• The screen

  Nova On request, the front window. Nova points. You click.

  Claude You bring the document into their window.

• Which computers

  Nova Apple Silicon.

  Claude Mac, and their other apps.

October 2026. The other product can change.