Today at its flagship Glean:GO conference, enterprise AI leader Glean unveiled Glean Tau, a new desktop experience that lets users complete complex work across local files, applications, and code, powered by Glean's enterprise context. Company also shared new benchmark results showing Glean saves 81% on token costs and is preferred 78% of the time versus Claude Cowork.
The announcements take aim at two growing problems in enterprise AI: constant botsitting required when AI lacks context to work effectively on own, and rising token costs as usage grows. Glean was built around enterprise context from day one. That foundation helps AI work with less human guidance while improving economics of AI at scale.
Stop botsitting AI: AI can perform increasingly complex work, but users still spend too much time preparing it - finding right files, supplying background, connecting tools, and steering it through each step.
Glean Tau is new AI desktop workspace built on open-source harness that unifies Glean enterprise context with local files, applications, and latest models, giving users context they need to delegate complex, multi-step work. It can plan, execute, review, recover, and act on user's behalf across tasks like organizing files, analyzing documents, creating spreadsheets, and working across connected apps. While coding and engineering workflows are early use case, Glean Tau brings automation to employees across enterprise, with Glean governance, security, and cost controls built in.
Context changes AI economics: As AI usage grows, so does cost of running it. New Glean benchmark shows how enterprise context can improve economics while delivering stronger results: Glean saved 81% on token costs and was picked as preferred answer 78% of time. Where Claude Cowork averaged $2.98 per query, Glean averaged $0.58.
Glean approach keeps relevant, permission-aware enterprise context available to AI, reducing need to repeatedly search for and rebuild context every time work gets done. Combined with intelligent model routing, this helps enterprises reduce cost of AI without sacrificing quality. Expanded Glean Intelligence capabilities give enterprises more control over economics, with centralized usage visibility and AI usage controls, plus enhanced auto routing that lets administrators prioritize efficient, balanced, or frontier models based on price-performance tradeoffs.
AI sprawl is accelerating as enterprises adopt more models, agents, and AI tools, creating more surfaces for enterprises to connect, manage, and secure. Glean provides leading enterprise AI platform for bringing ecosystem together, carrying consistent context, intelligence, and controls across places AI is built and used.
Glean Transform finds work AI should do and proves value using real activity signals to understand how work actually happens, identifies best split between people and AI, recommends where AI can take on work, connects opportunities to recommend skills and agents, and measures business impact.
Proactive Task Management and Coordination acts on work before user has to ask, drafting follow-up, preparing for meeting. Email triage brings company context into flow of work to prioritize what matters. Interactive Dashboards turn enterprise data into living decision surface combining structured data with unstructured context including tickets, conversations, documents.
Team Chat brings individual context and permissions into collaborative AI work enabling multiplayer collaboration in shared thread. AI Gateway governs AI wherever it shows up supporting more AI entry points, enforcing restricted topics policies through Glean Protect, expanding governed MCP access. Context-Aware AI Threat Detection detects risky agentic behavior using signals from Enterprise Graph and context layer.
"Models are getting better and more interchangeable. Understanding the enterprise is not. We designed Glean around that reality in 2019. The more AI moves from answering questions to actually doing work, the more valuable company context becomes, because it tells AI what matters, what should happen next, and how to act within the realities of the business," said Emrecan Dogan, Chief Product Officer, Glean.
About Glean
Glean is trusted context and intelligence layer for enterprise AI. Glean brings together company knowledge, people, permissions, and activity to give AI deep understanding of enterprise, then applies right intelligence and models to get work done effectively.
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