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Anthropic reveals Claude is now leading 26% of its own R&D work, up from nearly zero 6 months ago

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  1. 2026-09-18 16:21 · r/ClaudeAI
    Claude itself is now leading 26% of the work building the next version of Claude. 7 months ago, it was 0%. "There are now 30,000 agents doing research and engineering work at Anthropic at any one time."
  2. 2026-09-18 16:16 · r/agi
    Claude itself is now leading 26% of the work building the next version of Claude. 7 months ago, it was 0%. "There are now 30,000 agents doing research and engineering work at Anthropic at any one time."
  3. 2026-09-17 20:41 · r/singularity
    Anthropic reveals Claude is now leading 26% of its own R&D work, up from nearly zero 6 months ago

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