Anthropic debuts Claude Duet personal AI agent. Here's what to know.

Anthropic has joined the race to develop AI agents that work autonomously on behalf of humans with Claude Duet, a new app it previewed this week. The agent competes with Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots, rival developers' agents that are already popular with consumers. Claude Duet is only available by waitlist as a research preview for Claude U.S. Pro and Max subscribers, according to Anthropic. What can Claude Duet do? Claude Duet works as a "proactive agent" for human customers, taking autonomous actions to complete tasks assigned to it."It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working even when you step away and checks with you before it acts on your behalf," Anthropic said, noting that it was designed for professionals and…

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