Anthropic’s Claude Duet skips cute cartoons for serious enterprise tech you can’t access yet

Anthropic Claude Duet launched as a research preview on October 21 with a plain scribble logo, while rival agents used mascots. The standalone app runs on iOS, Android and claude.ai. Anthropic built it around Claude Opus 5.5, according to Gizmodo. Reuters reported that the company aimed it at professionals and small-business owners. Access stayed narrow. US subscribers on Claude Pro and Max plans could join a waitlist, and nobody else could try it. OpenAI's Dots agents use cartoon-style mascots, and Meta's Muse uses a creature character. Anthropic took a different branding route that matches its other products. The launch came as OpenAI and Meta raced to build agents that finish work on users' behalf. The pitch targeted working professionals Anthropic Claude Duet works as a proactive agent.

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