We’re opening a research preview of Claude Duet, a new app where Claude works as a proactive agent. It comes to you with what needs your attention, completes tasks you ask of it, keeps working when you step away, and checks with you before it acts on your behalf.

We didn’t anticipate the demand for the Claude Startups program. In the first 48 hours of the program, we received 21x the number of applications compared to the last 5 months it’s been live. We let way too many people in this time, so we’ll need to pause on giving out the Team plan and API credits benefits. The other benefits (Startup Stack, Applied AI office hours/events) will remain. If you’ve already claimed the Claude offers, they’ll still remain in your account. We didn’t properly tune the acceptance criteria at the start, and many non-startups were accepted this time around. We’re fixing this now. We’re sending an email now to everybody who hasn’t claimed their benefits yet, and will re-verify those applications so we can keep Claude Startups for startups 🙏

I JUST CANCELLED ALL OF MY CHATGPT SUBSCRIPTIONS. OpenAI just scammed everybody and BridgeMind is now starting a boycott against OpenAI. They cut the usage in half yesterday and said better efficiency makes up for it. This is a lie. GPT 6.1 Sol is just GPT 6 Sol with RL to look better on benchmarks. If we keep paying, Anthropic and every other lab will follow. Cutting usage is profitable for them. Do not let OpenAI get away with this.