Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26 percent of its AI R&D work, meaning the AI completes most tasks end-to-end from a high-level prompt under human supervision. The company also says AI performs large chunks of work on over 90 percent of its research. The figures come from a blog post proposing three measurements for communicating AI development pace, including an automation index built with Epoch AI's rating scale. Anthropic says Claude is not operating fully autonomously.
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