Anthropic acquires Vercept

Summary

Anthropic announces its acquisition of Vercept to advance Claude’s ability to operate inside live applications, where computer use supports multi-step work across tools and teams. Vercept’s team, including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick, focused on the perception and interaction problems involved in helping AI systems see and act within software used by people. Vercept will wind down its external product in the coming weeks and join Anthropic. The announcement cites Claude Sonnet 4.6’s progress on OSWorld: Sonnet models rose from under 15% in late 2024 to 72.5% today, with Sonnet 4.6 approaching human-level performance on complex spreadsheets and web forms across browser tabs. The deal follows Anthropic’s recent acquisition of Bun.

Takeaways

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   Vercept co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick will join Anthropic as the company advances computer use.

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   On OSWorld, Sonnet models improved from under 15% in late 2024 to 72.5% today; Sonnet 4.6 is approaching human-level performance on complex spreadsheets and web forms across browser tabs.

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   Vercept will wind down its external product in the coming weeks, making the acquisition a transition from an external product to work within Anthropic.