Anthropic says its model Claude is helping to build the next version of itself

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Toronto Star · collected 2026-09-18 · by Kaitlyn Huamani The Associated Press

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Anthropic announced on Thursday that its AI model Claude is assisting in developing the next iteration of itself, contributing to 26% of the company’s model research and development efforts. While Claude can handle most tasks from start to finish with a high-level prompt under human oversight, it does not operate completely independently yet.
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Story summary

On Thursday, Anthropic announced that its AI model Claude is playing a significant role in developing the next version of itself. Claude contributes to 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development efforts, capable of completing tasks from high-level prompts with human oversight. While not fully autonomous, this advancement suggests progress towards more sophisticated AI self-improvement capabilities.

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📰 AI Model Development
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Kaitlyn Huamani The Associated Press
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Anthropic Claude

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Anthropic ORG · 2× Claude PERSON · 1×

Narrative

Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task “end-to-end from a high-level prompt” while still being under human supervision.
framing: assertive · carried by 1 article(s) · first seen 2026-09-18

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Anthropic’s Claude is helping the company develop the next, more intelligent version of the model, the artificial intelligence lab said in an announcement Thursday. asserted
lab → help → announcement
Claude is leading 26% of Anthropic’s model research and development, which the company said means it can complete most of a given task “end-to-end from a high-level prompt” while still being under human supervision. asserted
it → lead → supervision
The model is not yet working completely autonomously. asserted
model → work → ?
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