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Anthropic launches always-on Claude Duet AI agent
The Decoder Anthropic takes on Grok Bot, Meta's Muse, and OpenAI's Dots with its always-on agent "Claude Duet"
Anthropic launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent that connects to third-party services and performs automated tasks offline.
Why it matters
You can now delegate multi-step tasks across apps like Gmail and Slack that run automatically in the background.
Latest brief · Oct 22, 2026