Anthropic reports Claude leads 26% of its internal AI R&D work

Anthropic disclosed that Claude leads 26% of the company’s internal AI research and development work as of August 2026, up from 1% in March, using an Epoch AI scale, with AI collaborating on over 90% of research. Approximately 30,000 agents operated on its main platform with screening that blocked about 1 in 47,000 decisions. The metrics provide a rare public window into the pace of AI-assisted frontier model development and recursive improvement risks.