Anthropic announced its acquisition of Vercept, a Seattle-based startup specialized in AI perception and software interaction. The move aims to accelerate Claude’s ability to navigate and operate desktop applications like a human user.
Vercept’s nine-person team, including co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick, will join Anthropic to solve complex perception challenges. As part of the transition, Vercept will wind down its flagship desktop application, Vy, over the next 30 days.
The acquisition follows significant performance gains for Anthropic; the company reported that its Claude Sonnet 4.6 model recently achieved a 72.5% score on the OSWorld benchmark, up from under 15% in late 2024.
This marks Anthropic’s second acquisition to date as it continues to develop autonomous digital agents. Financial terms were not disclosed.
