[METR Says Anthropic's Model Progress is About Twice as Fast as a Year Ago] According to a report by The Verge on November 7th, AI security research firm METR, after an 11-week investigation of Anthropic, stated that the company's model progress is about twice as fast as it was a year ago, with the progress made in the past year equivalent to about two years previously. METR believes that as of October, the majority of the accelerated R&D was due to AI, and its contribution is increasing, currently mainly from AI assisting human researchers rather than conducting research autonomously. Employees using Anthropic's most powerful internal model reported in informal surveys that their work efficiency was on average about 12 times that without AI assistance. The report states that Anthropic has heavily redacted its public reports, and co-founder Sam McCandlish stated that the information involved commercially sensitive content and could potentially help other companies accelerate their R&D.