Updated Sep 17, 2025 - Business

Exclusive: Anthropic's Claude is getting better at building itself, Amodei says

Ben Berkowitz

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei — Photo: Bryan Dozier and Ralph Alswang for Axios

Anthropic's Claude is increasingly writing the code to build future versions of itself, CEO Dario Amodei said at the Axios AI+ DC Summit on Wednesday.

Why it matters: "Terminator" isn't real yet, but AI's ability to grow itself is accelerating exponentially.

What they're saying: "Claude is playing this very active role in designing the next Claude," Amodei said, noting that the "vast majority" of future Claude code is being written by the large language model itself.

Amodei and co-founder Jack Clark said that while Claude can't yet manage all of its own development, the share it can do is growing rapidly.

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Exclusive: Anthropic's Claude is getting better at building itself, Amodei says

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