Claude now reportedly does 26% of Anthropic's R&D, up from under 1% in March

emmanuelvivier · x · 2026-09-19

Reports say Claude now handles roughly 26% of Anthropic's internal R&D work, up from under 1% in March. If accurate, AI penetration of a frontier lab's own research pipeline grew more than twentyfold in about six months—an accelerating "AI building AI" loop.

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