Mike Krieger may be best known as the co-founder of Instagram, but he's now the chief product officer at Anthropic, which makes Claude, a business-focused ChatGPT competitor with an equally powerful AI model. Claude exists as a free, standalone chatbot, though Anthropic also offers paid plans for individuals and large organizations.

Anthropic says it is teaching its Claude AI model to perform general computing tasks based on prompts. In demonstration videos, the model is shown controlling the cursor of a computer to conduct research for an outing on the town, searching the web for places to visit near the user’s home and even adding an itinerary to their desktop calendar.

The Amazon-backed company has released an upgraded AI model designed to use a computer like humans do. It can “look” at a screen, move a cursor, click buttons, type and open apps. According to Anthropic, the digital helper (dubbed Claude 3.5 Sonnet) can autonomously carry out tasks that require dozens, if not hundreds, of steps to complete.

Anthropic, a leading AI company, has released an upgraded version of its Claude model, named Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Anthropic's Tuesday announcement that it's giving its Claude model a new "computer use" capability has the AI world buzzing. Why it matters: This doesn't mean that bots have busted free of the chat box to run loose on the desktop and in the browser — but that day looks much closer,

If you’re worried about artificial intelligence taking your job, you might want to sit down for this one. AI startup Anthropic has demonstrated a new “Claude” model called that can look at a computer screen and operate a virtual mouse and keyboard,