# Business Insider — Anthropic launches Claude Duet, its answer to Meta and OpenAI's personal agents

- Company: Business Insider (businessinsider.com)
- Announced: 2026-10-21T20:29:03+00:00
- Category: product-launch
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-answers-meta-openai-new-personal-agent-claude-duet-2026-10
- Record: https://forck.live/items/26144-anthropic-launches-claude-duet-its-answer-to-meta-and-openai-s-personal-agents
- Subject: Reporting
- Models affected: Opus 5.5

Anthropic announced Claude Duet, a proactive personal agent that runs in the background and handles work on a user's behalf, now in research preview with a waitlist. The company says it built Duet around its flagship Opus 5.5 model, released in late September and already one of the industry's most popular. Duet sends users a morning brief about activity in their connected apps and messages them when something needs attention, running outside the user's computer and asking for approval on certain tasks. Mike Krieger, a co-lead of Anthropic's Labs team, said in a launch video that the tool "can have the discernment and judgment around when to be proactive, when to act on your behalf." Karan Ahuja, who led product management for Meta Superintelligence Labs until July, started at Anthropic in August and led Duet's development; he wrote that the team built it for professionals and small business owners juggling work and home. Anthropic is admitting people from the waitlist "as quickly as possible," and Meta's Alexandr Wang posted a meme about Duet's similarity to Meta's Muse.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-answers-meta-openai-new-personal-agent-claude-duet-2026-10:

> The company announced the new app Claude Duet on Wednesday, billed as a "proactive agent" that can run in the background, surface tasks to a user, and handle a variety of work. The tool is in research preview for now with a waitlist, meaning it won't immediately compete for the larger market with other new agents like Meta's Muse and OpenAI's Dots .

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