The acquisition comes after Anthropic unveiled Claude Sonnet 4.6, its greatest mannequin but for pc utilization.
Anthropic has acquired Seattle-based AI pc interface builder Vercept for an undisclosed quantity to assist additional the Claude product’s agentic talents.
The acquisition comes simply after Anthropic unveiled its newest Claude Sonnet 4.6, the corporate’s greatest mannequin but for pc utilization.
Vercept was based in 2024 by former Allen Institute for AI (AI2) researchers Matt Deitke, Kiana Ehsani, Ross Girshick, Luca Weihs and Oren Etzioni.
Etzioni served as AI2’s founding CEO, is the co-founder behind AI2 Incubator and a enterprise associate with Madrona, each of which have supported Vercept.
Shortly after rising from stealth in early 2025, the AI start-up launched its flagship product Vy, a cross-platform AI agent that allows customers to manage their computer systems with pure language for navigation of apps and content material.
The beginning-up has raised greater than $50m, together with a $16m spherical in January 2025. Its backers embrace Fifty Years VC founding associate Seth Bannon – who additionally served as a board member on Vercept – Level 9 Capital, AI2 Incubator and Madrona.
Huge Tech leaders, together with former Google CEO and chair Eric Schmidt, Jeff Dean, the chief scientist at Google DeepMind, and Kyle Vogt, the founder and former CEO of Cruise, reportedly participated within the January 2025 increase.
Not all of Vercept’s founding workforce was happy with the acquisition by Anthropic.
Etzioni, in a publish on LinkedIn, mentioned: “After just a little bit greater than a 12 months, Vercept is chucking up the sponge and giving their prospects 30 days to get off the platform. Unhappy.” Vy is scheduled to close down on 25 March.
In a separate publish, he held lead investor Bannon as partly chargeable for Vercept “failing to rent a single product [or] enterprise particular person”. He alleged that the start-up’s board was led by Bannon and by CEO Ehsani, who had “zero expertise”.
In the meantime, founding member Deitke left Vercept to affix Meta final summer season for a pay package deal that reportedly amounted to $250m over 4 years.
Final December, Anthropic acquired the 2021-founded coding toolkit Bun to speed up Claude Code. Bun, based on Anthropic, had improved the JavaScript and TypeScript developer expertise by optimising for reliability and velocity.
On Tuesday (24 February), Anthropic and DocuSign introduced the mixing of Claude Cowork to allow DocuSign customers to create, evaluation and handle agreements utilizing pure language prompts.
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