Artificial intelligence · 2024

Computer use agents

A model looks at screenshots and moves the mouse and keyboard like a person.

On October 22, 2024, Anthropic released computer use in public beta with the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, scoring 14.9% on OSWorld versus about 8% for the next best system. OpenAI's Operator followed in January 2025, making general GUI agents a product category.

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Claude | Computer use for automating operationsAnthropic · YouTube

Related measurements

The dashed line marks when it first worked.

Best AI score on GPQA Diamond Latest: 95.8 % correct (2026) Source: Epoch AI, Capabilities & benchmarking (benchmark_data.zip, gpqa_diamond.csv); Anthropic: Claude 3 public launch (March 4, 2024)

Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)