METR report finds Anthropic AI progress doubled, crossing RSP threshold
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Between October 2025 and October 2026, capabilities progress at Anthropic ran about twice as fast as the prior twelve months on an internal Epoch Capabilities Index variant (AECI). The report's authors attribute most of the sustained acceleration to AI automating AI R&D, and say the redacted evidence was "a majority of the evidence [they] found most informative."
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