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February 25, 2026
Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude's computer use capabilities
People are using Claude for increasingly complex work—writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications, the way a person at a keyboard would. That means Claude can take on multi-step tasks in live applications, and solve problems impossible with code alone. Today, we're announcing that Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help us push those capabilities further.
TL;DR
- Anthropic acquired Vercept to advance Claude's computer use capabilities.
- Vercept specializes in AI perception and interaction within software.
- The acquisition aims to enable Claude to handle multi-step tasks in live applications.
- This follows the launch of Claude Sonnet 4.6, which showed major improvements in computer use skills.
- Vercept's team, including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick, will join Anthropic.
- Vercept will wind down its external product.
- This is Anthropic's second recent acquisition, following Bun.
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