{"slug": "anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals", "title": "Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals", "summary": "Anthropic PBC on Wednesday launched Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals and small business owners, in research preview. Claude Duet is available as a standalone app on web, iOS and Android for Claude Pro and Max subscribers, and it completes tasks when asked, keeps working behind the scenes and checks in with users.", "body_md": "# Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals\n\n[SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com)\n\n[Anthropic](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/anthropic) PBC Wednesday introduced [Claude](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/claude) Duet, a proactive [artificial intelligence](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/artificial-intelligence) agent for professionals and small business owners in research preview, which completes tasks when asked, keeps working behind the scenes and checks in. Duet is available as a standalone app on the web, iOS and Android for Pro and Max subscribers. The company said the […]\n\nThe post [Anthropic introduces Claude Duet, a proactive AI agent for professionals](https://siliconangle.com/2026/10/22/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals/) appeared first on [SiliconANGLE](https://siliconangle.com).\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.\n\n## Key Terms Explained\n\n[AI Agent](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/ai-agent)\n\nAn autonomous AI system that can perceive its environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve goals.\n\n[Anthropic](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/anthropic)\n\nAn AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario and Daniela Amodei.\n\n[Artificial Intelligence](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/artificial-intelligence)\n\nThe science of creating machines that can perform tasks requiring human-like intelligence — reasoning, learning, perception, language understanding, and decision-making.\n\n[Claude](https://www.machinebrief.com/glossary/claude)\n\nAnthropic's family of AI assistants, including Claude Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-pr-7d83", "published_at": "2026-10-22 13:20:53+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-10-22 16:14:25.963318+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-agents", "ai-products", "artificial-intelligence", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "Claude Duet", "Claude", "SiliconANGLE"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-introduces-claude-duet-a-proactive-ai-agent-for-professionals.jsonld"}}