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RSI Encyclopedia · Event · Nov 2026

The METR report on SI building SI (2026)

METR reports that Anthropic is using SI to build more powerful SI, with its models improving roughly twice as fast as a year earlier.

Date
Nov 2026
Type
Milestone
Status
Happened
Era
2026

What happened

METR reports that Anthropic is using SI to build more powerful SI, with its models improving roughly twice as fast as a year earlier.

Why it matters

The report gave outside evidence that SI systems were already speeding up their own development at a frontier lab, the pattern behind recursive self-improvement.

Source

  1. The Verge

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