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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