The numbers are Anthropic's own proposed yardsticks for self-improvement, not independent findings — so the claim is a transparency commitment to watch, not yet evidence about how fast the loop is actually closing.
Anthropic says it will publish three measurements tracking how much AI research AI itself performs
Anthropic announced on X that it is sharing three measurements to track AI development, including how much AI R&D is done by AI, framing the effort as public transparency into systems increasingly used to build their successors.