The race for autonomous artificial intelligence agents is reaching a new stage of commercial confrontation. This Wednesday, October 22, 2026, the American firm Anthropic formalized the launch of Claude Duet, an AI agent currently offered as a mobile application in the testing phase. This announcement comes in direct response to the surge caused by the giant Meta with its "Muse" interface, launched in early September and quickly propelled to the top of downloads on Apple's App Store and Google Play, according to the firm Sensor Tower. Unlike consumer offerings such as Muse or Instinct, Anthropic has chosen to prioritize "professionals and small business owners" who have to manage "more tasks than they can keep track of." Claude Duet follows in the technological footsteps inaugurated at the turn of the year by the...
Partial consensus within the Western press: Nieuwsblad details the launch of Anthropic's new autonomous agents, while Der Spiegel questions the return on investment of AI compared to Meta's strategy with more skepticism.
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