On Wednesday, Anthropic announced the “research preview” of a new agentic platform called Claude Duet. It has its own app on iOS and Android, and apparently at least some influencers are getting access . But for the time being Anthropic says to “ join the waitlist “ if you’re interested—that is if you’re a Claude Pro or Max subscriber.

Anthropic is decidedly not following the lead of its competitors in the consumer-facing agent space by making Claude Duet cute (not yet, anyway). OpenAI’s Dots platform has a line of mascots that look sorta like cut-rate Pixar characters . Meta’s Muse is represented by a Totoro-type thing that also resembles a furry thumb . Claude Duet’ logo is just a scribble, like every other Anthropic product. It’s not for adult babies, apparently. You might say it’s the Arch Deluxe of AI agents—so far at least.

Anthropic’s announcement post for Duet says the company “designed it around Claude Opus 5.5,” though they conspicuously don’t say it exclusively uses that top-tier model.…