Anthropic's 2021 research roadmap, unsealed in copyright suit, shows early RL-for-tool-use bet
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-10-14
Anthropic's 2021 internal research roadmap has surfaced via copyright litigation, shared by smitop and amplified by YouJiacheng and teortaxesTex.
- The document is marked 'Confidential – Attorneys' Eyes Only'
- Its 'RL for Tool Use' section frames advancing AGI understanding via LMs learning to use tools and generate data about their environments
- Specific goals: see 'signs of life' on search and printf debugging, evaluate whether tool use + RL dissolving current LLM limitations
- It also sought training techniques that scale better with compute than supervised learning
A rare primary source showing Anthropic bet on RL + tool use as an AGI path as early as 2021, presaging its agent push.
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