Anthropic reveals Claude now leads 26% of its own R&D, up from near zero 6 months ago
Outside-Iron-8242 · reddit · 2026-09-18
Anthropic published new measurements showing Claude now handles 26% of the company's own R&D work, up from nearly zero six months ago. Part of its Anthropic Institute effort to quantify the pace of AI-accelerated development inside frontier labs, this is one of the most direct data points yet on AI doing AI research.
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