Anthropic's Claude gains computer control in Code and Cowork tools

Anthropic announced Monday that Claude can now complete tasks on users' computers, including opening apps, navigating browsers, and filling spreadsheets, after receiving prompts from a smartphone. The feature positions Anthropic directly against OpenClaw, the viral AI agent that went mainstream this year. The capability comes with safeguards requiring Claude to request permission before accessing new applications.

Anthropic has introduced desktop control capabilities for Claude, allowing the AI to operate macOS, open applications, navigate browsers, and interact with spreadsheets. The feature launches as a research preview in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, currently limited to macOS, and prioritizes existing app integrations before defaulting to direct desktop control.

Anthropic is rolling out computer control capabilities for Claude on macOS, allowing the AI to autonomously handle tasks like file navigation, clicking, and software interactions. The feature launches as a research preview for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers, with control available from iPhone via a new Dispatch tool.

Rakuten Group has released RakutenAI-3.0, a 671 billion parameter mixture-of-experts (MoE) model designed specifically for Japanese language tasks. The model activates 37 billion parameters per token and supports a 128K context window. It is available under the Apache License 2.0 on Hugging Face.

NVIDIA released Nemotron-3-Nano-4B-GGUF on March 16, 2026, a 4-billion parameter small language model (SLM) designed for edge deployment on devices like Jetson Thor and GeForce RTX. The model features a hybrid Mamba-2 and Transformer architecture with a 262K token context window and supports both reasoning and non-reasoning modes via system prompts.

Nvidia has released Nemotron 3 Super, a 120-billion parameter hybrid Mamba-Transformer Mixture-of-Experts model that activates only 12 billion parameters during inference. The open-weight model features a 1-million token context window, multi-token prediction capabilities, and pricing at $0.10 per million input tokens and $0.50 per million output tokens.

Xiaomi released MiMo-V2-Pro on March 18, 2026, a flagship foundation model with over 1 trillion total parameters and a 1,048,576 token context window. The model is priced at $1 per million input tokens and $3 per million output tokens, positioning it as an agent-focused system comparable to top-tier models.

Multiverse Computing, a Spanish startup, has launched a self-serve API portal giving developers direct access to compressed versions of models from OpenAI, Meta, DeepSeek, and Mistral AI. The move targets enterprises seeking to reduce cloud infrastructure dependence and lower compute costs through edge deployment. The company claims its HyperNova 60B 2602 model delivers faster responses at lower cost than the original OpenAI model it was derived from.

Adobe is rolling out custom models for Firefly, allowing creators to train the generative model on 10-30 of their own images to generate new content matching their specific visual style. The feature costs 500 credits per training session and supports three methods: photography style, illustration style, and character consistency.

NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Super, a hybrid Mixture of Experts model with 120B parameters and 12B active parameters, is now available as a fully managed model on Amazon Bedrock. The model supports up to 256K token context length and claims 5x higher throughput efficiency over the previous Nemotron Super and 2x higher accuracy on reasoning tasks.

Google has launched a vibe coding feature in Google AI Studio that converts natural language descriptions into working applications using Gemini 3.1 Pro. The platform now supports real-time multiplayer games and automatically configures databases, authentication, and third-party service integrations through an "Antigravity Agent."

Microsoft's superintelligence team, led by Mustafa Suleyman, has released MAI-Image-2, a text-to-image generator that currently ranks third on the Arena.ai leaderboard for text-to-image models, behind OpenAI's GPT-Image-1.5 and Google's Nano Banana 2. The model is now available for testing in the MAI Playground and will roll out to Copilot and Bing Image Creator, with API access opening to all developers through Microsoft Foundry.