METR Report: Anthropic's AI Development Pace May Have Doubled Due to Internal AI Use
A new report from AI research nonprofit METR says AI use within Anthropic may have doubled the company's pace of AI development. The rate at which Anthropic's models are improving as of October is roughly twice the rate between March 2024 and October 2025, according to The Information.
AI use within Anthropic may have doubled the company's pace of AI development, according to a new report from AI research nonprofit METR, as summarized in a briefing from The Information.
What the report says
The rate at which Anthropic's models are improving as of this October is roughly twice the rate at which they improved between March 2024 and October 2025, according to the briefing's account of the METR report.
The finding is framed as a possibility, not a settled result: METR says the speedup "may have" occurred, and links it to the use of AI within Anthropic.
Key figures
- Comparison period: March 2024 to October 2025
- Current measurement point: October 2026
- Reported change: the improvement rate is roughly twice the earlier rate
The summary available does not give benchmark scores, model names, or other metrics tied to the finding.
What this means
The report ties a measured change in Anthropic's model improvement rate to the company's own use of AI in its development work. If METR's reading holds, it would mean AI tools are affecting the speed at which a frontier lab improves its models, not just the tasks the models perform for customers. The hedged wording ("may have doubled") signals that METR presents the result as a likely explanation rather than a definitive one.
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