Anthropic is set to acquire Vercept, an AI built to see and act on computers as humans do, to push Claude's capabilities to meet the growing demands for use in complex workflows.
Announcing the acquisition, Anthropic reported that: “Vercept was built around a clear thesis: making AI genuinely useful for completing complex tasks requires solving hard perception and interaction problems.” This investment has been made to elevate Claude to the next level of intuitive development.
Vercept will wind down its external product in the coming weeks and join Anthropic in pushing the frontiers of computer use.
This acquisition follows the recent launch of Claude Sonnet 4.6, which shows a major improvement in computer use skills: on OSWorld, a widely-used evaluation for AI computer use, Sonnet models went from under 15% in late 2024, when first released for computer use, to 72.5% today. Anthropic reports that Sonnet 4.6 is now approaching human-level performance on tasks like navigating complex spreadsheets and completing web forms across browser tabs.
This announcement is part of Anthropic’s broader M&A strategy, which the company described as follows: “We look for teams whose technical ambitions match ours, whose work advances our capabilities, and whose approach to building AI is grounded in the same principles of safety and rigor that guide everything we do.”
Vercrpt said: “To our users and community: thank you. Your feedback, creativity, and willingness to try a new way of interacting with your computer made all of this possible. The energy and ideas you brought to Vercept have been extraordinary, and we're grateful for every bug report, feature request, and word of encouragement.
“We're really excited about what comes next. The work we started at Vercept will continue, now with the resources, talent, and vision of the most important AI research organization in the world behind it.”