Anthropic says Claude helps build its next version
Anthropic announced Thursday that its AI model Claude is significantly aiding in the development of its own successor, leading 26% of the company's model research and development work. The model completes most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt while remaining under human supervision. Claude is not working autonomously, with about 90% of research and development done in collaboration with the model under close human direction. The announcement comes as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and other AI leaders call for a slowdown in development over safety concerns. The company urged other AI developers to share similar metrics publicly, noting Claude led no research work in February but reached 25% by August. Anthropic also detailed oversight measures for approximately 30,000 agents doing research and engineering work.