Anthropic's Claude Duet Brings a Work-Focused Agent to Consumers

Anthropic has launched Claude Duet, an AI agent aimed at consumers who don't write code. It is more work-focused than rivals like OpenAI's Dots and Meta's Muse, and more approachable than Claude Cowork and Claude Code. The Verge's hands-on review finds it somewhat neurotic but surprisingly helpful.

Why it matters: Duet shows how the major labs are packaging agents for non-technical knowledge workers, a trend that will shape which agent products teams evaluate and how they're rolled out.