What changes with Claude Duet
Anthropic has announced Claude Duet, a mobile and web application built on the Opus 5.5 model and designed to perform tasks on the user's behalf. According to the company's note as reported by ANSA Tecnologia, the agent can browse the web and manage files on the computer. The target audience indicated is professionals and small businesses, with functions ranging from summarizing daily priorities to managing communications to producing economic forecasts.
The novelty is therefore not a simple conversational assistant but a digital operator that acts on the device and on the web. This is the trait that the new offering shares with the competing products cited in the article: they are autonomous agents, modules based on generative artificial intelligence that read information from devices and browse the web to complete tasks.
The race with Meta and OpenAI
The launch of Claude Duet comes shortly after moves by the main competitors. According to what was reported by ANSA Tecnologia, Meta presented Muse in September, while OpenAI released Dots in early October. The picture that emerges is one of fierce competition among the giants of artificial intelligence, which are shifting attention from conversational assistants to agents capable of carrying out concrete tasks.
To assess the impact of Claude Duet, comparison of actual capabilities and usage limits, not just the announcement, will be decisive. However, the available material does not make it possible to establish how the three products compare with one another in terms of performance, prices, or availability: further checks will be needed on these points.
Security and stated limits
On the security front, a central theme in the regulatory debate, Anthropic has introduced operational blocks that make payments and file deletions subject to the user's explicit approval, alongside filters for the protection of financial data. This is a statement by the company, not an independent verification: it remains to be understood how these controls will work in practice and how effective they are against errors or misuse.
The company also specified that the agent still has margins of error in assessing urgency and in personal tasks, and described the release as an experimental version. Availability is currently limited to the United States: it is not indicated when, or whether, the service will arrive in other markets. These elements place Claude Duet in a trial phase, with expectations to be calibrated on both capabilities and risks.
