Anthropic releases Claude 3.5 Sonnet computer use in public beta

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Claude 3.5 Sonnet computer use in public beta

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The first frontier model to operate GUIs through screenshots and coordinates, without dedicated APIs

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Officialanthropic.comhttps://www.anthropic.com/news/3-5-models-and-computer-use

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