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Anthropic launches Claude Duet, its answer to Meta and OpenAI's personal agents

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Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work.

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Timeline · 5 reports

  1. 2026-10-21 21:03 · Engadget
    Claude Duet is Anthropic's answer to Meta Muse and OpenAI Dots
  2. 2026-10-21 21:01 · Techmeme
    Anthropic unveils Claude Duet, a proactive agent app on iOS, Android, and the web that works in the background, in research preview for US Pro and Max users (Claude)
  3. 2026-10-21 20:37 · TestingCatalog AI News
    Anthropic opens Claude Duet preview for US Pro and Max users
  4. 2026-10-21 20:29 · Business Insider AI
    Anthropic launches Claude Duet, its answer to Meta and OpenAI's personal agents
  5. 2026-10-21 19:23 · Unite.AI
    Anthropic Opens Claude Duet Research Preview to US Pro and Max Users

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  1. Anthropic takes on Muse with Claude Duet, its new AI agent — The Verge AI
  2. Anthropic launches Claude Duet, its answer to Meta and OpenAI's personal agents — Business Insider AI
  3. Anthropic Joins the A.I. Agent Race With Claude Duet — New York Times Technology
  4. I’m having Claude and ChatGPT compete — r/ClaudeAI
  5. Jundot--Qwen3.8-Flash-Next-oQ4-mtp running on a Mac Studio M2 192gb with oMLX and OpenwebUI thinks it is Claude??? — r/LocalLLM
  6. Claude Duet — Hacker News Front Page
  7. Structured outputs for Anthropic Claude models on Amazon Bedrock — AWS Machine Learning Blog
  8. Inception says Mercury 3 beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 at up to 8x the speed — SiliconANGLE AI

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