A high-scoring Hacker News post spotlights FDM-1, a video-native computer action model trained on an 11-million-hour dataset. The release emphasizes automatic action labeling with IDM and large-scale forking-VM evaluation for long-horizon interaction tasks.
Anthropic announced it is acquiring Vercept to strengthen Claude's computer use stack. The move pairs model-level capability gains with deeper perception-and-interaction expertise for multi-step execution inside live software environments.
Anthropic says it has acquired Vercept to push Claude’s computer-use capabilities further. The company also tied the move to Sonnet 4.6 progress, citing a rise to 72.5% on OSWorld.
Claude Sonnet 4.6, released February 17, delivers dramatically improved coding and computer use (72.5% on OSWorld—a nearly fivefold improvement) with a 1M token context window in beta, at unchanged pricing from Sonnet 4.5.