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Anthropic answers Meta and OpenAI with a new personal agent, Claude Duet

Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work.

Anthropic, the AI company, has entered the personal agent market with the launch of Claude Duet, a new tool designed to assist users in managing their tasks and connected applications. The announcement was made on Wednesday, with the tool currently in research preview and available on a waitlist. Claude Duet is built on Anthropic's flagship model, Opus 5.5, which has gained popularity since its release in late September.

The tool aims to proactively manage tasks, surface them to users, and handle a variety of work, sending users a brief each morning about their connected apps and notifying them of tasks that require attention. The development of Claude Duet was led by Karan Ahuja, a former Meta employee who previously worked on Meta Superintelligence Labs.

The announcement comes as Anthropic prepares for an initial public offering that could value the company at $2 trillion, and as it competes with other AI players like Meta and OpenAI in the race to win over users and secure computing power.

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