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METR audit finds Anthropic's model progress accelerating, with AI driving most of the speedup

METR's eleven-week independent audit of Anthropic's internal data concluded the pace of model development has roughly doubled, with about 80 percent of the speedup attributed to AI itself, possibly crossing Anthropic's own acceleration threshold as early as July.

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Timeline · 2 reports

  1. 2026-11-06 13:40 · The Decoder
    METR finds Anthropic may have crossed its own AI acceleration warning threshold back in July
  2. 2026-11-05 23:13 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    METR Finds Anthropic Model Progress Accelerating, With AI Itself Accounting for Most of the Gain

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