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,

The experimental "computer use" capability points toward AI encroaching further into the realm of human skills.

Anthropic is making the agentic abilities available through its application programming interface (API) for its most powerful multimodal large language model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, from today. The company also announced a new and improved version of a smaller model, Claude 3.5 Haiku, today.