The Canada Brief

Tech · 12 d ago

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Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a background AI agent

Duet works in the background and alerts users only when something needs attention. It is a research preview for Claude Pro and Max subscribers.

What Duet does

  • Builds a daily briefing
  • Creates dashboards
  • Schedules meetings
  • Prepares financial and sales forecasts
  • Prototypes web apps

Duet is aimed at professionals and small business owners.

What we know

  • Payments need user approval
  • It runs in its own virtual machine

Not yet

  • When it leaves research preview
  • When it opens beyond the US

Payments need user approval. Anthropic has not said when Duet will leave research preview.

And us?

The waitlist is open only in the US, so readers in Canada cannot join yet.