An AI agent made Anthropic's own apps three times faster.
Anthropic says Claude worked with its engineers for two weeks in August to speed up its own apps. A fresh claude.ai page load fell from 3,085 milliseconds to 550, about six times quicker. The team merged more than 3,000 changes in that fortnight without a single rollback.
Why it mattersThe apps you open every day were slow, and the company now admits users were right. A lab pointing its own model at its own plumbing is becoming ordinary engineering.
Read in the app — free, in 9 languages
Related stories
AWS says its free agent wrapper runs Claude at a quarter the price.2026-09-24Meta's assistant packed up its own machine and mailed it out.
2026-09-23Claude Code skips your instructions file when telemetry is off.
2026-09-23OpenAI's Sora video API shuts down tomorrow with no replacement.
2026-09-23One hidden setting turned Meta's AI assistant into a Mac wiretap.
2026-09-23