Anthropic says Claude now leads 26% of its R&D work
Anthropic reports that its Claude chatbot now leads 26% of its artificial intelligence research and development, up from nearly zero at the start of the year, according to a report released Thursday. The company says Claude collaborates with staff on about 90% of their work. The figures were published in a report aimed at increasing public transparency amid concerns about AI rapidly improving beyond human control. Anthropic also reiterated plans to embed third-party evaluators with internal access, and noted over 30,000 agents perform research and engineering work at any time. The announcement highlights the industry's focus on "recursive self-improvement," where AI builds itself with minimal human help. It follows recent calls from leaders like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to slow AI development, which have drawn pushback from President Donald Trump and differing views from other tech executives.