Anthropic: Claude now leads 26% of its AI R&D, up from near zero six months ago
VraserX · x · 2026-09-19
Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its AI R&D and collaborates on more than 90% of it. Six months ago, the leading figure was essentially zero.
The author argues this is the recursive self-improvement metric that matters—not whether AI can literally rewrite itself overnight, but how fast its share of real R&D work is growing.
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