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Anthropic has acquired @Vercept_ai to advance Claude’s computer use capabilities. Read more: https://t.co/YVz1zh7Pqq
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View on XAnthropic Acquires Vercept to Push Claude's Computer Use Forward
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Anthropic acquired Vercept, an AI research team focused on how AI systems perceive and interact with software interfaces - the hard vision and interaction problems behind reliable computer use. Co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick join Anthropic directly; Vercept's external product winds down in coming weeks.
The acquisition reflects how seriously Anthropic is treating computer use as a capability frontier. Claude Sonnet 4.6, released the same day, scored 72.5% on OSWorld - up from under 15% in late 2024. That brings Claude close to human-level performance on tasks like navigating complex spreadsheets and completing multi-tab web forms.
This follows Anthropic's earlier acquisition of Bun. If you're tracking how agentic tools evolve toward full computer control, this is a significant signal - Anthropic is acquiring specifically for the perception stack that makes reliable computer use possible.
