Anthropic announced on September 18, 2026 that its Claude AI model is leading more than 26% of the company's research and development efforts and collaborates on 90% of development work, according to internal metrics released by CEO Dario Amodei. The disclosure highlights Claude's central role in building its own successor.
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Anthropic has announced that its AI model, Claude, is significantly aiding in the development of building its successor.
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Anthropic says its model Claude is helping to build the next version of itself AP News
Anthropic's chatbot Claude is leading more than a quarter of the artificial intelligence (AI) firm's research and development efforts, the company revealed Thursday. The report marks the latest sign of AI's growing capabilities within the development space itself, building on months of suggestions from researchers that the technology is getting closer to building and self-improving....
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