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API-Free Autonomy: Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Give Claude “Human-Like Eyes” for Desktop Mastery

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Feed Name: securityonline.info

Date Published: 2026-02-27

Date Updated: 2026-04-23

Author: Ddos

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Anthropic acquired Vercept to integrate vision-first UI recognition into Claude’s "Computer Use" feature, enabling API-free automation that visually identifies and interacts with complex or legacy interfaces; this acquisition aims to reduce misclicks and enhance spatial reasoning, positioning Anthropic competitively against OpenAI, Google, Perplexity and other AI-agent innovators and framing Claude as a potential "digital employee" for enterprise desktop automation.

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