The product announcement details a new beta feature launched on March 12, 2026, allowing Claude to create interactive charts, diagrams, and other visualizations directly within chat conversations. This builds upon a previously previewed concept, "Imagine with Claude."

The core methodology of this feature involves real-time, code-free generation of visuals. When discussing a topic, Claude can autonomously decide to generate a visual to aid user understanding, or users can explicitly prompt it to do so with queries such as "draw this as a diagram" or "visualize how this might change over time." These visuals are distinct from "artifacts" – which are permanent, shareable, or downloadable tools and documents – by being in-line, temporary, and dynamic. They appear directly within the conversational flow and are designed to evolve, change, or disappear as the dialogue progresses and the conversational context shifts.

Users can interact directly with the generated visuals, requesting adjustments, modifications, or deeper exploration of the data or concepts presented. For instance, Claude can generate an interactive curve to explain compound interest, allowing users to "play around with" its parameters, or create an interactive periodic table where elements can be clicked for more details. This dynamic interaction facilitates iterative refinement and contextual exploration.

This capability is part of broader improvements to Claude's response formats, which also include purpose-designed structures for specific topics (e.g., ingredients and steps for recipes, visual weather forecasts) and interactive connectors with external applications like Figma, Canva, and Slack. The interactive visualization feature is available by default across all Claude plan types.