Anthropic unveils Claude Duet AI agent app (Oct 21)

(Corrects paragraph 1 ‌in Oct 21 ​story ​to "Wednesday" from "Thursday")

Oct 21 (Reuters) - Anthropic on Wednesday unveiled Claude Duet, a standalone AI agent app ‌designed to act as a proactive assistant for professionals ⁠and small-business owners, as rivals such as OpenAI and Meta ‌race to develop AI agents ‌that can complete work autonomously on users' behalf.

• Duet delivers a daily briefing and handles tasks ranging ​from scheduling meetings to building financial forecasts and web apps, Anthropic said

• Available on iOS, Android ⁠and claude.ai through a waitlisted research preview, it monitors users' connected apps and ​surfaces items requiring attention rather than waiting for prompts

• Duet is built around Anthropic's Opus ​5.5 model and is initially ‌available to US subscribers on Pro and Max plans, sharing existing usage limits

• OpenAI last ⁠month launched always-on "dots" agents that pursue user goals across apps such as Slack and Microsoft Teams, while Meta's Muse AI ⁠agent drew millions of downloads and fueled investor interest in autonomous ​AI services

• Duet integrates with over 6,000 connectors in the Claude Marketplace, including Gmail and Slack, and can make purchases via ‌Stripe's Link digital wallet and Shopify's Shop Pay

• The AI lab said Claude Duet ‌requires user approval for sensitive actions, while acknowledging the ⁠agent can misjudge urgency ‌and remains less effective ​at personal tasks such as booking tickets

(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Shreya ‌Biswas)

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