Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude's computer use capabilities
Anthropic has acquired Vercept to enhance Claude’s ability to use computers, building on recent gains in computer‑use performance with Claude Sonnet 4.6. Vercept’s expertise in perception and interaction for software use will be integrated into Anthropic’s research, while Vercept’s external product will wind down. The acquisition follows Anthropic’s earlier purchase of Bun and supports the company’s focus on safety and rigorous AI development.
The Core Development
People are using Claude for increasingly complex work—writing and running code across entire repositories, synthesizing research from dozens of sources, and managing workflows that span multiple tools and teams. Computer use enables Claude to do all of that inside live applications, the way a person at a keyboard would. That means Claude can take on multi-step tasks in live applications, and solve problems impossible with code alone. Today, we're announcing that Anthropic has acquired Vercept to help us push those capabilities further.
Vercept was built around a clear thesis: making AI genuinely useful for completing complex tasks requires solving hard perception and interaction problems. The Vercept team—including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick—have spent years thinking carefully about how AI systems can see and act within the same software humans use every day. That expertise maps directly onto some of the hardest problems we're working on at Anthropic. 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, our Sonnet models went from under 15% in late 2024, when we first released computer use, to 72.5% today. Sonnet 4.6 is now approaching human-level performance on tasks like navigating complex spreadsheets and completing web forms across browser tabs.
Strategic Perspective & Ecosystem Impact
Vercept is the latest team we’ve brought into Anthropic, following the acquisition of Bun . 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.
We’re also looking for individuals. If you're interested in joining Anthropic’s engineering team, visit our careers page .
To evaluate the safety of our systems, Anthropic is giving employee-like access to a team from METR, a nonprofit that evaluates frontier AI models, and we're in early discussions with several other organizations, including Hugging Face.
Why it matters
The move signals a continued industry push toward AI that can interact seamlessly with real‑world software, a key step for broader adoption of generative models in complex workflows.