Anthropic's Tuesday announcement that it's giving its Claude model a new "computer use" capability has the AI world buzzing. Why it matters: This doesn't mean that bots have busted free of the chat box to run loose on the desktop and in the browser — but that day looks much closer,

Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup founded by a team of former OpenAI employees, has revealed Claude 3.5 Haiku. It is a new AI model capable of replicating the performance of its largest system, but with the cost and speed of its smallest. The company also revealed a new version of its mid-sized model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet.

Anthropic's latest version of Claude can 'read' a computer via screenshots and operate its mouse and keyboard, performing basic data entry tasks.