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Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think

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Anthropic wants you to know Claude leads a quarter of its research, but "lead" doesn't mean what you think

The Decoder · Sep 18, 2026, 2:06 PM UTC

For the first time, Anthropic is releasing metrics on how it builds its own AI. Claude already "leads" 26 percent of the work on future models, up from under one percent in February. But the underlying scale is fuzzy, the scoring comes from Claude itself, and "lead" means less than it sounds.…