Claude's new proactive personal agent directly challenges Muse and Dot.
Context
What happened: Anthropic launched Claude Duet, a personal AI agent built on Claude Opus 5.5 that connects to email, calendar, banking and business systems and finds tasks without a user prompt. It is in research preview for US Pro and Max subscribers.
Key numbers: Over 6000 connectors and plugins from Claude Marketplace. Apps on iOS, Android and web.
Why it matters: The launch adds Anthropic to a personal AI agent race with Meta and OpenAI, and drew public comment from OpenAI's Thibault Sottiaux. Anthropic says Duet is early stage and may misread conversations or urgency.
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