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Anthropic Wants Its AI Agent to Control Your Computer

Claude is the first major AI model to be able to take control of a computer to do useful work.

Anthropic, a high-flying competitor to OpenAI, today announced that it has taught its AI model Claude to do a range of things on a computer, including searching the web, opening applications, and inputting text using the mouse and keyboard. “I think we're going to enter into a new era where a model can use all of the tools that you use as a person to get tasks done,” says Jared Kaplan, chief science officer at Anthropic and an associate professor at Johns Hopkins University. Ofir Press, a postdoctoral researcher at Princeton University who helped develop SWE-bench, says that agentic AI tends to lack the ability to plan far ahead and often struggle to recover from errors.

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