Anthropic: Claude drives 26 percent of its own successor's development
AI company Anthropic has announced that its chatbot, Claude, is now leading over a quarter of the company's research and development work as it builds its own successor.

What happened?
AI company Anthropic announced on 17 September 2023 that its language model, Claude, is now steering 26 percent of the firm's internal research and development (R&D). This share has climbed from zero percent in just a few months. Claude is employed to write code, analyse data, and perform automated tasks to build the next generation of itself.
Key facts
| Andel R&D ledd av Claude | 26 % |
|---|---|
| Tidigare andel | 0 % (några månader tidigare) |
| Publiceringsdatum | 17 september 2023 |
”more than a quarter of its research and development is now led by its chatbot Claude, a figure that jumped from zero in just months”
Why it matters
The 26 percent figure represents a clear trend toward the increased automation of coding and research tasks within AI development. By allowing existing models to handle routine coding and analysis, development cycles for new model generations are accelerated without the company needing to increase its human workforce at the same rate.
Who is affected?
This development primarily concerns researchers, developers, and companies monitoring automation within the AI industry. Claude users and organisations integrating Anthropic models are also affected by the fact that future model versions are increasingly being created through automated processes.
Impact on the EU
Anthropic provides its Claude models to users and companies in the EU in accordance with applicable data protection regulations such as GDPR. As the autonomous development of AI models occurs internally at Anthropic in the US, this does not currently affect the directly accessible functionality for EU users.
What else you should know
The report from Anthropic was published in The Washington Post on 17 September 2023. The data is based entirely on Anthropic's own measurements of how internal developer tools and scripts are utilised in the company's research work.
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