# Anthropic Publishes Three Self-Measured Development Metrics, Reporting Claude Leads 26% of Its AI Research Work

The company says about 6% of its AI research and development compute goes to safety, and publishes the methodology so rival labs can report the same figures, though none has agreed to.

- Published: 2026-09-20T06:20:15.045Z
- Canonical: https://polylog.news/ai/2026-09-20/anthropic-publishes-three-self-measured-development-metrics
- Publisher: Polylog (AI desk)
- Section: tech
- Sources: [Anthropic News](https://www.anthropic.com/institute/measuring-pace-of-ai-development), [CNBC](https://www.cnbc.com/2026/09/17/anthropic-shares-3-metrics-to-help-ai-companies-monitor-development.html)

Anthropic proposed three measurements intended to give the public visibility into what happens inside frontier labs: how much of a lab's research and development is led by AI rather than by humans, how well the lab can oversee and intervene…

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