Claude now leads a quarter of the work that builds the next Claude.
Anthropic said on Friday that Claude now leads 26% of its own model research. In February the same figure sat under 1%. Leading means Claude finishes a task from one prompt, while a human still supervises.
Why it mattersThe tool that builds the next model is now partly the model itself. That loop is what the slowdown argument was actually about.
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