Anthropic has announced Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent built to compete directly with Google's Muse and OpenAI's Dots. It is not publicly available yet, operating under a waitlist.
The competitive positioning matters. Anthropic is now explicitly in the agentic assistant race, not just the chatbot one. Duet signals a strategic shift toward persistent, initiative-taking AI rather than reactive prompting.
The full article includes video and details on what Duet actually does autonomously. Read it to understand how Anthropic's safety-first approach holds up when the agent is acting on your behalf without being asked.
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