Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its own R&D work
002Chris · reddit · 2026-09-18
Anthropic revealed that Claude now accounts for roughly 26% of the company's R&D work, a concrete datapoint on frontier labs using their own models to accelerate AI research — often cited as evidence of recursive self-improvement.
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