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METR audit finds Anthropic's AI model progress roughly doubled since late 2025

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An independent METR audit found Anthropic's models are improving about twice as fast as between March 2024 and October 2025, with internal AI use driving roughly 80% of the acceleration.

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  1. 2026-11-05 19:01 · Techmeme
    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
  2. 2026-11-05 18:36 · AlphaSignal
    METR Finds Anthropic's AI-Assisted R&D Moving Twice as Fast

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