METR finds Anthropic packing nearly 2 years of AI progress into 1 year, no clear bottlenecks
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-11-06
Independent researchers at METR measure that Anthropic is achieving roughly two years' worth of AI progress in a single year, indicating accelerating rather than linear capability gains. They attribute much of the acceleration to AI helping build better AI, and report finding no clear bottlenecks that would prevent further acceleration.
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