Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Expand Claude Computer-Use Stack

What Anthropic announced

On February 25, 2026, Anthropic announced that it acquired Vercept to advance Claude’s computer use capabilities. In Anthropic’s framing, computer use is the ability for Claude to act inside live software interfaces and complete multi-step tasks that are difficult to solve with code-only workflows.

Anthropic said Vercept was built around hard perception and interaction problems, and that this expertise maps directly to the next phase of Claude’s agentic product roadmap. The Vercept team, including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick, will join Anthropic. Vercept’s external product is expected to wind down in the coming weeks.

Why this is tied to recent model progress

The company connected the acquisition to its recent Sonnet 4.6 launch. Anthropic said its Sonnet family improved on OSWorld, a widely used computer-use benchmark, from under 15% in late 2024 to 72.5% today. Anthropic also said this places the model near human-level performance on tasks such as spreadsheet navigation and multi-tab web form completion.

Strategic signal

The announcement suggests Anthropic is investing in both model intelligence and interface-level execution so Claude can handle real operational workflows, not only text generation. Anthropic described this as the latest team acquisition following Bun, and emphasized the same safety-and-rigor standard for integration.

Primary sources: Anthropic announcement and the original X post.