Anthropic launches Claude Duet, its answer to Meta and OpenAI's personal agents
Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work.
TL;DR
- Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a new personal AI agent.
- Duet is a "proactive agent" that runs in the background and handles tasks.
- It is built on Anthropic's Opus 5.5 model.
- The tool is currently in a research preview with a waitlist.
- Karan Ahuja, formerly of Meta, is leading Duet's development.
- Meta's Alexandr Wang noted similarities between Duet and Meta's Muse.
- Anthropic is approaching a potential large IPO.