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Anthropic Answers Back: Claude Duet Joins the Agent Race

Anthropic previewed Claude Duet, an agent for small businesses and professionals. It sends daily briefs, keeps watch on connected apps, and builds dashboards, schedules meetings and makes financial forecasts. Anthropic says it "checks with you before it acts on your behalf". It's a direct shot at Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.

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Key facts

  • Anthropic says Claude Duet is built for small businesses and professionals: daily briefs, watching connected apps, dashboards, meetings and forecasts.
  • Anthropic says the agent checks with the user before it acts on their behalf.
  • CNBC reports it will likely challenge OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse.

Sources

  1. Original reportCNBC cnbc.com

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