Anthropic is pushing hard on AI agents as the next big leap beyond chatbots. Jared Kaplan, co-founder and Chief Science Officer, laid it out in a recent TechCrunch Sessions: AI talk with Maxwell Zeff. He says agents will massively expand what AI can do.
The company also opened up on some recent controversies. Anthropic pulled some model access from Windsurf, a startup reportedly on its way to being acquired by OpenAI. That move stirred up the AI community.
Kaplan didn’t shy away from politics either. He slammed the Trump administration’s AI policies and backed Anthropic’s calls for more regulation and transparency. 
Jared Kaplan stated:
Anthropic Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer Jared Kaplan joined TechCrunch Senior Reporter Maxwell Zeff at our TechCrunch Sessions: AI event to talk about the hottest topic within the AI community right now: agents. In Kaplan’s view, chatbots are just the start, and agents will be the next frontier in expanding what AI can be capable of accomplishing.
Kaplan also addressed a couple recent flashpoints with Anthropic, including the company rescinding some model access to the startup Windsurf, reportedly set to be acquired by OpenAI, as well as the company’s stance against some of the Trump admin’s recent AI policies.
