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AI Is Speeding Up While New Zealand Waits For A Government
Good Ancestors Executive Director Dan Foote says the assessment puts independent numbers on the acceleration the companies themselves have warned about.
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New Zealand's next government should prioritise addressing the risks of advanced AI, says Good Ancestors New Zealand, after an independent assessment found that one of the world's leading AI companies, Anthropic, is likely improving its models at around twice its previous rate. METR judged that most of that speed-up is likely coming from the company's own use of AI.
On 5 November the AI evaluation non-profit METR published its assessment of research and development at Anthropic, based on 11 weeks of access to the company's internal data and staff. It found Anthropic is "likely improving the capabilities of their models on well-specified tasks at around twice the rate" it did between March 2024 and October 2025.
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