Anthropic's Claude builds next AI model

Anthropic's AI model Claude now leads 26% of its own research to create a smarter successor

Sep 18, 2026

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Anthropic's Claude builds next AI model

Anthropic's AI model Claude now leads 26% of its own research to create a smarter successor

In brief

Anthropic's AI model Claude now leads 26% of its own research to create a smarter successor Claude autonomously contributes to 26% of Anthropic's R&D work while staying under human supervision Originally reported by ABC7 Chicago.

Claude leads R&D

Anthropic says its model Claude helping build next version of itself

Anthropic's Claude model now handles 26% of its research and development work while remaining under human supervision

Progress over time

Claude's role grew from zero percent in February to 26 percent in August, showing increasing autonomy within human oversight

Human oversight

Anthropic maintains 30,000 agents for research and engineering work with monitoring systems to detect misbehavior

Safety concerns

Safety concerns

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei and tech leaders call for slowing AI development to address safety risks

Public transparency

Anthropic urges AI labs to share development metrics publicly to track progress and ensure human control

Recursive self-improvement

Anthropic warns that models building themselves could challenge human understanding and control of AI systems

Here's the gist

Claude autonomously contributes to 26% of Anthropic's R&D work while staying under human supervision

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