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METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration (Tiffany Li/The Information)

Source: TECHMEME · NOV 05, 2026

Tiffany Li / The Information : METR: Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as they did between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving ~80% of acceleration — AI use within Anthropic may have doubled the company's pace of AI development, a new report from AI research nonprofit METR says.

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