Anthropic answers Meta and OpenAI with a new personal agent, Claude Duet
Source: Business Insider ·
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work.
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Ami Vora, Anthropic's chief product officer, and Daniela Amodei, its president.Don Feria/AP Content Services for AnthropicAnthropic has its answer to AI agents like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.Claude Duet, built on Anthropic's flagship model, has entered the personal agent frenzy.Karan Ahuja, a recent departee from Meta, led Claude Duet's development.Anthropic is joining the personal AI agent craze.The company announced the new app Claude Duet on Wednesday, billed as a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work. The tool is in research preview for now with a waitlist, meaning it won't immediately compete for the larger market with other new agents like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.Still, the announcement ramps up the pressure on those companies — Anthropic says it built Duet around its flagship Opus 5.5 model, which was released in late September and has already become one of the industry's most popular. Recent model…