Claude now leads 26% of Anthropic's AI R&D, up from under 1% in February
mark_k · x · 2026-10-03
Per Anthropic's new internal measurements relayed by markk:
- Anthropic has roughly 30,000 AI agents working on research and engineering at any given time — Claude is helping build its own successors.
- Claude now leads 26% of the lab's AI R&D work, up from less than 1% in February, meaning handling most of a task from a high-level prompt with human supervision.
- Claude contributes substantially to over 90% of the lab's R&D work.
The August figures show how quickly AI has become embedded in the process of building better AI.
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