Anthropic acquires Vercept to advance Claude’s computer use capabilities

Source: Anthropic Date: 2026-02-25 URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/acquires-vercept

Summary

Anthropic acquired Vercept, a computer vision and AI perception company, to enhance Claude’s computer use capabilities. Cited computer use performance jumping from under 15% on OSWorld in late 2024 to 72.5% with Claude Sonnet 4.6 — “approaching human-level performance” on navigating spreadsheets and web forms. Vercept co-founders Kiana Ehsani, Luca Weihs, and Ross Girshick join Anthropic as Vercept winds down its external product.

Implications

• Agentic engineering / computer use thread. Vercept’s team (Ehsani, Weihs, Girshick) are computer vision researchers — Girshick is a prominent CV researcher (Faster R-CNN author). Acquiring this level of computer vision expertise suggests Anthropic is investing seriously in the perception layer that makes computer use reliable, not just the language model layer.
• 15% → 72.5% on OSWorld. The OSWorld benchmark improvement from sub-15% to 72.5% is a substantial capability jump. 72.5% on a real-world computer task benchmark means Claude can now complete most of the benchmark tasks reliably — this is the capability threshold where computer use becomes production-viable.
• Vercept talent acquisition. The external product winding down means this is primarily a talent acquisition — Anthropic is buying the team’s expertise, not a product. The CV research team will now be working on Claude’s perception systems directly.
• Timing alongside Sonnet 4.6 launch. Acquiring Vercept simultaneous with Sonnet 4.6’s computer use improvement suggests the acquisition was already in process when Sonnet 4.6 was trained — the next model will benefit from Vercept’s full integration.
• Watch: OSWorld scores on Claude Opus 4.7 (post-Vercept integration); whether computer use capabilities move beyond form-filling to more complex multi-application workflows; how Vercept’s perception research gets published or disclosed.