METR says that ruler covers well-specified tasks, and Anthropic redacted most of the rest.
“AI is dramatically accelerating AI research at Anthropic right now, roughly doubling the pace of capabilities progress.”
Ajeya Cotra on Planned Obsolescence, reading METR's assessment and Anthropic's S-1 statement that it may imminently meet its own threshold, 6 November 2026
Recorded 7 November 2026. Our ruling means: literally true, materially misleading.
Anthropic is likely improving the capabilities of their models on well-specified tasks at around twice the rate they did between March 2024 and October 2025
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“AI is dramatically accelerating AI research at Anthropic right now, roughly doubling the pace of capabilities progress.”
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