Anthropic Announces Claude Duet, a Personal AI Agent

Anthropic today announced Claude Duet, a “proactive agent” for individuals that will be delivered outside the core Claude user experience. It’s available now as a research preview on Android, iPhone, and the web with a waitlist for those on the Claude Pro and Max subscriptions.

“We designed Claude Duet to be a partner you can trust,” Anthropic says. “Professionals of all kinds have to juggle many decisions a day, and we think they’ll find Claude Duet most useful. It helps you prioritize where to spend your time and energy, and to leave room for the ambitious projects that felt impossible or daunting before.”

Claude Duet will compete with other personal AI agents like Gemini Spark, Meta Muse, Microsoft Autopilot, and OpenAI Dots, though the timing suggests that Anthropic was caught a bit flat-footed by its competitors in this case. Unlike those options, Claude Duet is specifically for work, not everyday tasks, though it works with over 6,000 different apps, is built on Opus 5.5, and is designed to interact with you throughout the day.

“Each morning, Claude Duet sends you a short brief on the most important items across your connected apps,” Anthropic explains. “Throughout the day, it keeps tabs on those apps and messages you only [use] when something needs your attention. You can also hand it tasks of all shapes–from simple administrative tasks of scheduling meetings to more complex ones, such as building dashboards with dozens of tools, creating financial or sales forecasts, prototyping, and building web apps.”

You can learn more about Claude Duet on the Anthropic website.