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,

Startup Anthropic is adding a series of upgrades to its Claude AI model — including the ability to interact with computer interfaces much like a human does. That ability, which the company calls simply "computer use,

Claude 3.5 Sonnet is available as a beta for developers to try out now. It can view a screen, move a cursor, click buttons, and even input text. It's not perfect, but neither are you!