Ross Girshick

Anthropic Acquires Vercept to Advance Claude's Computer Use Capabilities

Anthropic has acquired Vercept, a team specializing in AI perception and interaction for computer use tasks, whose co-founders include Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick. Vercept will wind down its external product and join Anthropic to push computer use capabilities further. The announcement coincides with the launch of Claude Sonnet 4.6, which achieved 72.5% on the OSWorld benchmark—up from under 15% in late 2024—approaching human-level performance on tasks like navigating spreadsheets and completing web forms. This follows Anthropic's earlier acquisition of Bun and is part of a broader strategy to build agentic, multi-step task capabilities into Claude.