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Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think

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For the first time, Anthropic is releasing metrics on how it builds its own AI. Claude already "leads" 26 percent of the work on future models, up from under one percent in February. But the underlying scale is fuzzy, the scoring comes from Claude itself, and "lead" means less than it sounds. The a…

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  1. 2026-09-18 14:06 · The Decoder
    Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think

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