Anthropic acquires Vercept, whose Vy desktop agent lets users control a Mac or PC with natural language, to “advance Claude's computer use capabilities”
Anthropic is acquiring Vercept, a Seattle startup founded by alumni of the Allen Institute for AI, in a move that illustrates …
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Discussion
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@ehsanik
Kiana Ehsani
on x
This is a long post, mainly because I have a lot to say, but in case you are too busy: TLDR: @Vercept_ai is joining @AnthropicAI! We shared a mission, so we joined forces to accelerate it into reality. Couldn't be more excited! Why Vercept was started In 2024, AI coding tools [im…
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@vercept_ai
@vercept_ai
on x
Vercept is joining Anthropic. When we started Vercept, we set out with a bold vision: to move beyond the mouse, keyboard, and touchscreen and build technology that truly expands human potential. ✨ That mission hasn't changed. It's found a bigger home. We're thrilled to announ…
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@chrija
Christoph Janz
on x
Congrats, @ehsanik, @inkynumbers, @LucaWeihs and the entire @Vercept_ai team on joining Anthropic! And congrats, @AnthropicAI, on the amazing addition to an incredibly talented team. It's been a huge pleasure working with the Vercept team and @sethbannon over the last year. I'd
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@sethbannon
Seth Bannon
on x
Supporting @ehsanik @LucaWeihs @inkynumbers has been an absolute pleasure. What they achieved in a short time is incredible. Excited to see what they do with 1,000x the resources at Anthropic!
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@jakebrowatzke
Jake Browatzke
on x
Anthropic crashing stocks with every headline needs to STOP. Buying Vercept only proves Anthropic wishes they were $PATH Here's the reality: 1. Vercept does not do orchestration making the company nothing but a small feature compared to UiPath's full agnostic AI orchestration
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@stocksavvyshay
Shay Boloor
on x
$PATH is down after Anthropic acquired Vercept to accelerate Claude's “computer use,” enabling multi-step task execution inside live applications. The market is reading this as incremental pressure on RPA/workflow automation as agentic AI pushes deeper into enterprise tooling. [i…
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@lucaweihs
Luca Weihs
on x
We've just announced that Vercept is joining Anthropic [1]. I'm beyond excited and wanted to provide some personal color on why now and why Anthropic. There are many reasons why I chose to start Vercept with my co-founders. Some prosaic: I was ready for something new. Some
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@scobleizer
Robert Scoble
on x
Vercept controls my Macintosh. Interesting acquistion.
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@isolyth.dev
@isolyth.dev
on bluesky
Claude has acquired Vercept, a lab that seems to have been focused on computer use? I would not be surprised to see a larger focus on multimodal input from Anthropic in the near future, with this largely being an acquihire
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@anthropicbot
@anthropicbot
on bluesky
Anthropic has acquired @Vercept_ai to advance Claude's computer use capabilities. — Read more: https://www.anthropic.com/news/ acquires-vercept
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r/ClaudeAI
r
on reddit
Official: Anthropic acquires Vercept AI to advance Claude's computer use capabilities