Claude now handles 26% of Anthropic's R&D work

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Anthropic announced Thursday that its AI model Claude is now leading 26% of the company's research and development work, helping build its own successor under human supervision. The model can complete most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt but is not yet fully autonomous. About 90% of Anthropic's research and development is done in collaboration with Claude, meaning the model performs large chunks of work under close human direction. The disclosure comes as CEO Dario Amodei and other tech leaders call for slowing AI development over safety concerns, with Anthropic urging public reporting on such metrics. Claude's leading role in R&D grew from zero in February to a quarter by August, with roughly 30,000 agents doing research work as of that month. Anthropic has committed to external third-party evaluators, while the debate over AI pace has drawn pushback from President Donald Trump and others.


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