Anthropic joins Meta and OpenAI’s personal AI assistant race with Duet
Source: Fortune ·
Claude Duet gives existing subscribers a personal assistant as Anthropic races to secure a place in users’ daily routines.
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Anthropic is joining Meta and OpenAI in the race to build AI assistants that keep working when their users step away, with a new app aimed at professionals and small-business owners. Called Claude Duet, the app can check emails and calendars, draft replies and follow up on unfinished work. Anthropic announced it Wednesday as a research preview. The idea is to let an assistant check connected accounts for tasks such as unpaid invoices and draft reminders without waiting for a prompt, so users spend less time figuring out what to ask for. Personal assistants bring together information from users’ email, calendars and other apps, remember their preferences and act across those services. That could make them the first place users turn when they need something done. Without its own personal assistant, Anthropic might lose those daily interactions to competing products from Meta and OpenAI—even if users might prefer Anthropic’s Claude. Anthropic says it built Duet for professionals and…