Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based AI startup Vercept, signaling further consolidation in the emerging market for AI agents that can directly operate software applications. Vercept, a graduate of Seattle’s AI-focused incubator A12, developed cloud-based agents capable of controlling a remote MacBook, part of a broader effort to rethink how work gets done as enterprises explore AI-driven…
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Anthropic acquires Vercept to expand the capabilities of AI computer use
Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help push Claude’s computer use capabilities further. People are using Claude for increasingly complex work, including writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications,…