Anthropic launches Claude Duet, a research-preview AI agent for professionals

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Anthropic has unveiled Claude Duet, an AI agent aimed at professionals and small business owners and positioned as a rival to Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots. The agent is released as a research preview, available as a standalone app on iOS and Android as well as through Claude on the web. According to the company, it is built on the Claude Opus 5.5 model. Each morning it delivers a short brief on the most important items across a user's connected apps, then monitors those apps during the day and alerts the user only when something requires attention. Users can also assign it tasks.

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