After Meta’s Muse and ChatGPT Dot, Anthropic follows suit and unveils Claude Duet

Anthropic opened a waiting list on October 21 for Claude Duet, a “research preview” reserved for U.S. Pro and Max subscribers, while Team and Enterprise plans remain excluded for now. The app, available on iOS, Android and the web, reverses the usual relationship with the chatbot, as the agent monitors connected accounts and proactively flags what deserves your attention.With Muse at Meta and Dots at OpenAI, the industry will have launched three agents of this kind in six weeks.

An assistant that no longer waits for your questions

Every morning, Duet sends a summary of the important items identified in apps linked to the account, calendars, mailboxes, or work tools, drawn from more than 6,000 connectors. The rest of the day, the agent checks these accounts again every few hours and only reaches out when a matter requires a decision. Anthropic is targeting the tool “at professionals and small business owners who have more on their plate than they can handle”.

The tasks assigned to it range from scheduling appointments to building dashboards, financial forecasts, or small web apps. Powered by the Opus 5.5 model, the agent inherits the memory, skills, and connections already configured in the Claude account, and can be controlled by voice or text.

Safeguards govern this autonomy: Duet requests approval before sending a message, making a payment, signing a document, or deleting a file, while stock trading orders and bank transfers would be categorically prohibited. Background activity, however, is charged against the subscription allowance, with the company explaining that “continuous checking would exhaust the limits of your plan much faster”.She also acknowledges that her agent “may still misjudge what is urgent”.

Three agents in six weeks, none in Europe

The sequence began on September 8 with Muse, Meta’s agent, launched in the United States and then extended to Canada, free for the most part and earning a commission on the transactions it successfully completes. OpenAI followed on September 29, unveiling Dots at its developers conference: permanent agents that work on their own machine in the cloud.

As is customary with AI launches, none of the three works in France. Dots is explicitly unavailable in the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom for Pro subscribers, without OpenAI giving any reason. Muse is limited to North America, and Duet’s waiting list requires a U.S. account. The precedent of Sora, launched in late 2024 but not in the European Union, or of Operator, which arrived on the continent several weeks late, offers hope for staggered launches rather than a lasting abandonment.

For France, the timing therefore remains unclear, and the cost is already foreseeable, since these agents consume the subscription allowance even when you are not requesting anything. Yet three of the sector’s biggest players are now betting on the same wager: AI that comes to you instead of waiting for your instructions.

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Source : Anthropic