This is a long post, mainly because I have a lot to say, but in case you are too busy: TLDR: @Vercept_ai is joining @AnthropicAI! We shared a mission, so we joined forces to accelerate it into reality. Couldn't be more excited! Why Vercept was started In 2024, AI coding tools were already becoming magical for developers, but other industries were ages behind. It felt insane that when my mom had IT issues, I still had to hop on a call and walk her through it step by step. Insane that sending a simple email took so many clicks. That's why we started @Vercept_ai : Build something that acts for users instead of telling them how to do it. Two goals: 1) help people do tasks they didn't know how to do, and 2) handle the zero-brainpower tasks so people spend more time on creative work. As simple as scheduling meetings, as complex as reconciling messy financials before tax season. Ultimate goal was to have people spend less time behind screens and more time walking in nature. (Very Pacific Northwest mission 😁) The ride The journey of building an AI native company in this day and age was wild. Going from researcher to founder meant trading “reviewer number 2” for business partners and users, but surprisingly a lot of the same paradigms applied. Come up with a hypothesis, design an experiment, analyze user behavior, change the model and product based on the findings, wash, rinse and repeat. There are some differences though. The pace and the adrenaline. Lows are low, highs are high. We were constantly being challenged and learned at a pace we had never learned before. NEVER! If you are an adrenaline junkie like we are, it's a blast. The joy of the startup adrenaline rush is truly underrated. Why Anthropic We raised more than $50M, had a comfortable runway and a successful product, were building full steam with a small team, and were truly enjoying every minute of it. But that's when the opportunity came to join forces with Anthropic. We already knew how great Anthropic was at building models and we admired their mission, but then we learned more about the vision. We went on hours of walks, had long conversations, talked to members across different orgs, and learned more about Anthropic's vision and commitment to core beliefs which were very similar to ours. The more we talked, the more we realized we had been working on the same mission but from complementary perspectives. We realized that joining forces meant we could build something much much bigger together. And beyond the mission, I am now a big believer that Anthropic's real moat isn't its best model. It's the people. Incredibly talented folks who genuinely care about mission and real impact over hype. A zero-ego culture obsessed with building something meaningful. The choices were clear: we could build independently and work toward the same vision as two separate versions of it, or join forces with an incredible team and accelerate that vision into reality. The decision became an easy choice. What's next for our mission Mission continues, just got a bigger stage and an expanded team. The goal is still to expand AI beyond just a chatbot, to enable non-technical users to leverage it just as much as technical ones. We're just getting started. It takes a village This journey wouldn't have happened without the people who made it what it was. First and foremost, my cofounders @LucaWeihs and @inkynumbers . Best people I could've wished for as cofounders. We never once got into an argument, always had communicative discussions and as a cherry on top shared the same sense of humor! I feel blessed and grateful to have these two in my life. Thankful to our team for trusting in the three of us and showing up day and night. Grateful for @sethbannon , our board member, lead investor, great mentor and the person whose energy is so infectious that whenever we were having a down moment we would say "channel your inner @fiftyyears energy!" And to our wonderful investors and supporters: @chrija and @PointNineCap , Yifan and Jacob and @ai2incubator , and @mattmcilwain and Ted Kummert from @MadronaVentures . Couldn't have done this without you. Onward 🐜

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What are specific requests in Claude Computer/Browser Use that have failed for you? We want to fix. An example for me is: "pay my barber $40 through my personal paypal" (where paypal is logged into my 2nd chrome profile, I'm logged out but password is saved)

I will get over making videos with Claude one day!!! Hopefully! I asked Opus 5.5 to: "learn everything it could about me online with computer use, then make a funny video." It found my hobbies, my work, even read my papers lol. There are some Easter eggs in there too. This is so so so cute! (It comes up a bit braggy I do apologize on that but I wanted to just post the 1shot)

Opus 5.5 is good in ways that surprises me every day! It's incredible how big of a jump in multimodal it is! Got Opus 5.5 to move my furniture into a house on Zillow 🏡 I gave it a video of my home and the Zillow link for a home. My prompts: 1. "Learn the furniture I have from this video, then make a 3D version of this house and furnish it with my furniture. Make it photorealistic" 2. "Now make me a walkthrough video and a 3D version I can interact with" 3. "Make a video of this entire session showing the steps you took" Watch till the end for the walkthrough of 3D scene 😅 (Disclaimer: I'm not actually buying this house, it's just a random zillow link!)

Lol! Sure we had some models that weren't great to interact with! But capabilities were there 😂 Opus 5 wasn't that bad was it? It was just bad at writing 😁

This looks like a video of the Golden Gate Bridge, but it's actually entirely generated using code by @claudeai Opus 5.5. From my testing, I think Opus is just as good at building 3D scenes as Astra. 📌 Watch my latest video to see how Opus and Astra compare on this scene and more: piped.video/UhBqorWNwlU

This is probably the coolest model release we have had since we have joined Anthropic! The visual capabilities of this one is 👨‍🍳🤌

Bear with us, it will have rough edges at first but we will get better!

Claude is getting so good at making videos!!!

Computer use in the Claude Code desktop app now runs in the background. Claude works in the apps you've allowed it to while you keep working. It's already on if you've used computer use before, or turn it on in Settings > General. In beta on Pro and Max, macOS only.

Claude can now use your computer in the background in Claude Cowork and Claude Code. Give it something to do on your desktop and Claude clicks, types, and opens apps just like you would, while you work on something else.

Got 20 of these this morning! Seems like I'm not the only one? What's going on @X?

Happy launch day! Fable 5.1 is very capable but it is also really awesome in visual taste! I love the visuals it makes!

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San Francisco! This is your chance to meet the amazing Christoph! Don't miss it! I was lucky enough to catch him in his last 6 months SF visit and I consider myself very lucky and fortunate!