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Anthropic Proposes Metrics for Tracking AI Development at Frontier Labs

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Anthropic has outlined metrics for tracking AI development at frontier labs, including the extent of AI-driven R&D, agent oversight, and compute allocation. The company also reported that Claude leads 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and collaborates on over 90% of it under close human direction.

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  1. Techmeme
    Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated (Anthropic)

    Anthropic : Anthropic outlines metrics to track AI development at frontier labs: how much AI R&D is done by AI, how well agents are overseen, and how compute is allocated — AI systems are becoming exponentially more powerful and have begun to automate more of the process of building themselves.

  2. Techmeme
    Anthropic says Claude "leads" 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and "collaborates" on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)

    Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg : Anthropic says Claude “leads” 26% of its AI R&D work, up from 1% in March, and “collaborates” on 90%+, doing large chunks of work under close human direction — More than a quarter of Anthropic PBC's research and development work for artificial intelligence …

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