For now, you'll need to first join a waitlist. Anthropic became the latest AI lab to release a personal agent following Space XSI, Meta and Open AI. Claude Duet is billed as an always-on AI agent that can proactively complete tasks, running on its own virtual machine with a dedicated browser to surf the web and complete jobs.
It can also use any apps connected to your Claude account. As of the writing of this article, Duet is currently in preview, with availability limited to Claude Pro and Max subscribers in the US. To start using the agent, users must join a waitlist on Anthropic's website, entering their name, company, email address, phone type, and a short description of intended tasks.
Anthropic plans to include Duet as a perk of its $20 per month Pro plan and up, differing from Open AI's Dot agents which start at $100 per month. During the preview, Duet will share usage with all other Claude apps, including Code and Cowork. Anthropic is advertising Duet as a proactive personal agent capable of generating daily briefings with action items and delegating tasks such as scheduling meetings, creating forecasts, and building web apps.
For example, a business owner might task Duet with generating a weekly sales and cashflow dashboard, while a scientist could ask the agent to flag related research papers. Duet's proactivity is built on data in the user's Claude account, meaning its usefulness depends on how much of one's digital life one is willing to share with Anthropic. For some, the privacy tradeoff may not be worth it.
Source: Engadget · Summarized by HeadlinesBriefing