Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude's computer use capabilities
Key Points
- Anthropic acquired Vercept
- Focus on perception and UI interaction for live apps
- Claude Sonnet 4.6 achieves 72.5% on OSWorld
Summary
Anthropic has acquired Vercept to accelerate Claude's ability to operate inside live applications. Vercept's team and research focus on perception and interaction—enabling AI to see and act inside the same software humans use—will be integrated into Anthropic's efforts to improve multi-step workflows across codebases, browsers, spreadsheets, and cross-tool tasks. Vercept's external product will be wound down and the team will join Anthropic.
Key Points
- Acquisition goal: integrate Vercept expertise in perception and UI interaction to advance Claude's "computer use" capabilities.
- Measured progress: Claude Sonnet 4.6 reached 72.5% on OSWorld (up from under 15% in late 2024), approaching human-level on tasks like complex spreadsheets and multi-tab web forms.
- Practical engineering focus: perception, robust UI action/interaction, multi-step orchestration across apps, and safety-driven system design.
- Operational change: Vercept co-founders and engineers will join Anthropic; external Vercept product will shut down in the coming weeks.
- Hiring: Anthropic is recruiting engineers; see the company careers page for opportunities.