Anthropic joins Meta and OpenAI’s personal AI assistant race with Claude Duet
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.
TL;DR
- Anthropic introduced Claude Duet, a new AI assistant for professionals and small-business owners.
- The app can check emails, calendars, draft replies, and follow up on tasks autonomously.
- Claude Duet aims to reduce the time users spend on administrative tasks.
- It competes with existing agentic AI assistants from Meta (Muse) and OpenAI (Dots).
- Duet's functionality is integrated with existing Claude features and usage limits.
- Access to Duet may be limited by Anthropic's infrastructure capacity.