I've seen quite a few YC startups working on AI-powered RPA, and now it looks like a foundational model player is directly competing in their space. It will be interesting to see whether Anthropic will double down on this or leave it to third-party developers to build commercial applications around it.
We thought it was inevitable that OpenAI / Anthropic would veer into this space and start to become competitive with us. We actually expected OpenAI to do it first!
What this confirms is that there is significant interest in computer / browser automation, and the problem is still unsolved. We will see whether the automation itself is an application later problem (our approach) or whether the model needs to be intertwined with the application (Anthropic's approach here)
