Anthropic也加入了个人人工智能助手的热潮中。该公司于周三发布了名为“Claude Duet”的新应用程序，这款助手被宣传为一种“主动型人工智能助手”——它可以在后台运行，向用户展示需要处理的任务，并协助完成各种工作。目前该工具仍处于研究预览阶段，用户需要先加入等待名单才能使用；因此它暂时还无法与Meta的Muse或OpenAI的Dots等同类产品直接竞争。
Anthropic is joining the personal AI agent craze. The company announced the new app Claude Duet on Wednesday, billed as a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work. The tool is in research preview for now with a waitlist, meaning it won't immediately compete for the larger market with other new agents like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots.
不过，Anthropic的这一举动无疑给这些竞争对手带来了压力——该公司表示，Claude Duet是基于其旗舰产品Opus 5.5模型开发的，而Opus 5.5模型已于9月底发布，已成为业界最受欢迎的人工智能模型之一。最近的人工智能技术突破使得AI在独立处理任务方面的能力大幅提升，这推动了开发者们加速开发这类“始终处于待机状态”的个人助手。
Still, the announcement ramps up the pressure on those companies — Anthropic says it built Duet around its flagship Opus 5.5 model, which was released in late September and has already become one of the industry's most popular. Recent model breakthroughs have made AI better at handling work on its own, spurring a rush to build these "always-on" personal agents.
Anthropic实验室的联合负责人Mike Krieger在Duet的发布视频中表示：“这款助手能够判断何时应该主动采取行动，何时应该代表用户进行处理。”据Anthropic称，该工具每天早上会向用户发送关于其连接的应用程序中发生情况的简短通知，并在需要用户关注时发出提醒。与其他类似产品一样，Claude Duet会在用户电脑之外运行、发送通知，并在某些任务执行前征求用户的批准。
"It can have the discernment and judgment around when to be proactive, when to act on your behalf," said Mike Krieger, a co-lead of Anthropic's Labs team, said in a Duet launch video. The tool, Anthropic says, will send users a brief each morning about what's happening on their connected apps, and message them when something needs attention. Like other companies' offerings, it runs outside a user's computer, sends notifications, and asks for approval on certain tasks.
Anthropic在发布Claude Duet的当天正好也是Meta发布财报的日子；该公司还借此机会提到了从Mark Zuckerberg的公司挖来的新成员Karan Ahuja。根据Karan Ahuja在LinkedIn上的信息，他在7月之前担任Meta Superintelligence Labs的产品经理，8月加入Anthropic后负责Claude Duet的开发工作。他在X平台上写道：“我们开发这款工具是为了帮助那些在工作中和生活中需要处理大量事务的专业人士及小型企业主。”
Anthropic announced Duet on the day of Meta's earnings report and used the opportunity to mention a new poach from Mark Zuckerberg's company. Karan Ahuja led product management for Meta Superintelligence Labs until July, according to his LinkedIn, before starting at Anthropic in August and leading Duet's development. He wrote on X that he's been using Duet to build Duet, and said the team "built it for professionals and small business owners juggling a lot at work and at home."
Ahuja还表示，Anthropic正在尽快让等待名单上的用户也能使用Claude Duet。这一消息自然引起了Meta的注意：Meta Superintelligence Labs的负责人Alexandr Wang在社交媒体上发布了一个关于Claude Duet与Meta的Muse相似之处的梗图。
Ahuja also wrote that Anthropic is letting people into Duet from the waitlist "as quickly as possible." The news didn't go unnoticed at Meta. Alexandr Wang, who heads Meta Superintelligence Labs, posted a meme about Duet's similarity to Muse.
Anthropic即将进行大规模的首次公开募股（IPO），其估值可能高达2万亿美元。与其他人工智能企业一样，该公司也在激烈的竞争中努力吸引用户、获取计算资源、开发最先进的AI模型，并推出基于AI技术的原生产品。数据公司Apptopia估计，截至周三，Muse的应用程序安装量已超过1400万次。研究还发现，安装了Muse应用程序的Claude用户使用Claude的频率比之前更高了，不过每天使用Claude的时间仍然少于他们在Meta平台上花费的时间。
Anthropic is fast approaching a giant initial public offering, which could value the company at as much as $2 trillion. Like other AI players, the company navigates a high-wire competition to win over users, secure computing power, build state-of-the-art models, and deliver AI-native products. The data firm Apptopia estimates that Muse had more than 14 million installations as of Wednesday. It found that Claude users who installed the Muse app were using Claude more than before, though still for fewer minutes per day than they spent on the Meta product.