This is a long post, mainly because I have a lot to say, but in case you are too busy: TLDR: @Vercept_ai is joining @AnthropicAI! We shared a mission, so we joined forces to accelerate it into reality. Couldn't be more excited! Why Vercept was started In 2024, AI coding tools were already becoming magical for developers, but other industries were ages behind. It felt insane that when my mom had IT issues, I still had to hop on a call and walk her through it step by step. Insane that sending a simple email took so many clicks. That's why we started @Vercept_ai : Build something that acts for users instead of telling them how to do it. Two goals: 1) help people do tasks they didn't know how to do, and 2) handle the zero-brainpower tasks so people spend more time on creative work. As simple as scheduling meetings, as complex as reconciling messy financials before tax season. Ultimate goal was to have people spend less time behind screens and more time walking in nature. (Very Pacific Northwest mission 😁) The ride The journey of building an AI native company in this day and age was wild. Going from researcher to founder meant trading “reviewer number 2” for business partners and users, but surprisingly a lot of the same paradigms applied. Come up with a hypothesis, design an experiment, analyze user behavior, change the model and product based on the findings, wash, rinse and repeat. There are some differences though. The pace and the adrenaline. Lows are low, highs are high. We were constantly being challenged and learned at a pace we had never learned before. NEVER! If you are an adrenaline junkie like we are, it's a blast. The joy of the startup adrenaline rush is truly underrated. Why Anthropic We raised more than $50M, had a comfortable runway and a successful product, were building full steam with a small team, and were truly enjoying every minute of it. But that's when the opportunity came to join forces with Anthropic. We already knew how great Anthropic was at building models and we admired their mission, but then we learned more about the vision. We went on hours of walks, had long conversations, talked to members across different orgs, and learned more about Anthropic's vision and commitment to core beliefs which were very similar to ours. The more we talked, the more we realized we had been working on the same mission but from complementary perspectives. We realized that joining forces meant we could build something much much bigger together. And beyond the mission, I am now a big believer that Anthropic's real moat isn't its best model. It's the people. Incredibly talented folks who genuinely care about mission and real impact over hype. A zero-ego culture obsessed with building something meaningful. The choices were clear: we could build independently and work toward the same vision as two separate versions of it, or join forces with an incredible team and accelerate that vision into reality. The decision became an easy choice. What's next for our mission Mission continues, just got a bigger stage and an expanded team. The goal is still to expand AI beyond just a chatbot, to enable non-technical users to leverage it just as much as technical ones. We're just getting started. It takes a village This journey wouldn't have happened without the people who made it what it was. First and foremost, my cofounders @LucaWeihs and @inkynumbers . Best people I could've wished for as cofounders. We never once got into an argument, always had communicative discussions and as a cherry on top shared the same sense of humor! I feel blessed and grateful to have these two in my life. Thankful to our team for trusting in the three of us and showing up day and night. Grateful for @sethbannon , our board member, lead investor, great mentor and the person whose energy is so infectious that whenever we were having a down moment we would say "channel your inner @fiftyyears energy!" And to our wonderful investors and supporters: @chrija and @PointNineCap , Yifan and Jacob and @ai2incubator , and @mattmcilwain and Ted Kummert from @MadronaVentures . Couldn't have done this without you. Onward 🐜

Great day today! I finally learned what Fable means and it is really a beautiful name imo 😍

Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors. Available today at the same price.

Today I was supposed to be on my way to Türkiye for my wedding, to meet up with my family and have them finally meet my partner and husband. We had everything planned. We chose Turkiye since it's close to Iran and my partner and I could both go there and have our families meet each other. We were supposed to get married with our close family and a small group of friends on a boat on the Mediterranean Sea at sunset. Because of the war, all flights to and from Iran are cancelled and my family can’t leave Iran, so we had to call off the wedding. Instead, this is how my day looked like. I woke up to a reminder to call my grandma (I used to call her every Friday morning). I snoozed the reminder until next Friday, just like I have done for the past many years. I can’t call her like our tradition these days because there is no way to call home. All international calls to Iran are blocked, and the internet is fully shut down by the regime. I got to work and right as I opened my computer I received an email I had scheduled to send to myself 5 years ago: “Apply for citizenship.” This summer marks 11 years of being in the US and 5 years of being a green card holder. I am now eligible to file for citizenship, but it doesn’t matter because an executive order was signed a few months ago that banned all Iranians from applying for any visa or citizenship. At lunch I opened Twitter just to see what’s up in the world and saw the news that those who don’t have a green card now need to leave the US before they can get one. This means every one of my Iranian friends who are here on a visa now has to go back home (on which flight?) to get a green card??? As if it’s that easy? We all know getting back to the US for Iranians is a huge challenge (months and months of waiting for a visa, with a chance of never being able to come back). And this is just a normal Friday for an Iranian. These days, when people ask how I’m doing and how I’m handling everything, I just say: It’s okay, it’s okay. It will be okay some day. But the reality is: nothing is okay. I’m in constant pain. I haven’t seen my family and loved ones in years, I barely hear about their wellbeing, and I’m constantly worried about them. I’m just burying myself in work because that’s the only distraction that can save me from losing my mind. I’m not okay. None of us are okay. We are just barely holding it together…

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

I needed to book flights for a bunch of upcoming travel. As always, I used Claude Cowork to do it. In the past, Cowork has been decent at booking flights, but with Opus 4.7, for the first time ever, it 1-shotted it!

Back to the motherland. Land of Cybertrucks and unhinged billboards. Excited to be back.

👋 Guessing you're looking at npm-only data. We switched to a native installer a few months back, so the majority of installs aren't captured here. Thursday was the second-highest Claude Code signup day we've ever had (15x growth since Jan 1). Ask Claude to debug your SQL?

40 under 40! 🏆 As much as it's an honor, it was also a reminder that I'm not getting any younger 😁 I'm still barely past 30, so please don't get the wrong idea! But the past 3 years have been an amazing ride. Life has had its ups and downs, but I've grown and learned more than I ever thought possible, and that's what made these years so special. The first part was at @allen_ai working with @anikembhavi. ❤️ Ani is one of the best leader and mentors I've ever worked with. He gave me wings to think beyond what I thought was possible. He helped me believe in myself and showed me my strengths and weaknesses. The second part was at @Vercept_ai. 💚 Man, that was a wild ride! I learned at a speed I didn't know was possible. @sethbannon and @chrija were the best partners I could have asked for. I learned how to build a company, build a product from zero to one, make 100 decisions a day, and move fast with limited resources. The third part has been the past 4 months at @AnthropicAI. 🧡 I've been surrounded by the smartest, most humble people I've ever met, and the talent density here is unreal. We launched computer use, and getting to build at the frontier, from models all the way to products, has been incredible. Honestly, I didn't expect it to be this much fun 😄 . I always knew Anthropic was a great place with high retention, but now I get why. I wish I could share more of what makes it special, but so much of it is wrapped up in things I can't talk about publicly yet. Just trust me on this one. I am where I am not just because of hard work, but because I've also gotten lucky and worked with wonderful people I could learn from. 🙏 I don't take it for granted, and I know it's a privilege. I'm not done! I have so much more to learn and so much more room to grow. LFG! 🔥

My heart is crushed for the founders and team members of @ManusAI. They’re an amazing talented team and nobody deserves to be treated this way. I hope this story gets a happy ending. @hidecloud

Claude, fix everything! Make no mistakes!

Da Dream! 😁 It's really good for those of us who are horrible at design. At an offsite two weeks ago we had 71 people editing the same slide deck and it went smoother than I expected! Design was very consistent across all slides. btw it's so hard to keep track of what we are releasing externally when we are shipping fast and use different code names! and don't even get me started on model code names!

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We're bringing the advisor strategy to the Claude Platform. Pair Opus as an advisor with Sonnet or Haiku as an executor, and get near Opus-level intelligence in your agents at a fraction of the cost.

Windows development and debugging is by far one of the most annoying experiences, but regardless, enterprise happens on Windows! I honestly feel bad that we always ship the Windows version of our products way after the Mac version. Hopefully this time 10 days was short enough.

Excited about computer use in Claude Code. I think it's a very clear win for QA, debugging, and testing. Clicking through the app, watching for visual regressions, all without needing to set up Playwright. But I'm even more curious what this does for non technical folks. Right now if you're not a builder, using Claude Code means learning a bunch of stuff that has nothing to do with what you actually want. Setting up a database. Figuring out what Claude means when it says a port is already in use. Half the friction isn't the task, it's understanding the errors. Computer use skips a lot of that because Claude can just look at what's on screen instead of asking you to interpret it. Very excited for this to help bring Claude Code to more people and expand our user base.

…but we’re so early! So many good things yet to come

I want to share a little more about how Claude using your computer works! When Claude wants to use your computer, it first needs to request access to specific applications (Slack, Figma, any other app).

To enable, just turn on the toggle in the settings and read over the safety tips here: support.claude.com/en/articl… Only on macOS for now (and for pro/max plans) but lots of updates coming soon :)

It's been 26 days since Vercept joined Anthropic ➡️ Claude is now able to use your mouse and keyboard to control your computer in Cowork and the Claude Code Desktop app 🖱️⌨️💻 I'm so excited for everyone to play with what we've been building!

When we were deciding between joining @AnthropicAI or continuing to build independently at @Vercept_ai , we wrote down the pros and cons. One con everyone kept raising: acquisitions slow you down. You get dragged into bureaucracy. There's no way you ship as fast. It's been less than four weeks since we joined, and with the team here behind us and joining forces, we just shipped our first product launch. That speed comes down to the culture here. Everyone moves fast, everyone is incredibly smart, humble and supportive, and it's really easy to get things done. I'm very bullish on this: Anthropic's moat is its people. Starting today, Cowork now supports full computer use, and Dispatch lets you control your machine remotely from anywhere. Four weeks down, many more to come. We're just getting warmed up. 🔥