Anthropic shares 3 metrics to help AI companies monitor pace of development

Dario Amodei, co-founder and chief executive officer of Anthropic, at Bloomberg House during the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, on Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2026.

Chris Ratcliffe | Bloomberg | Getty Images

Anthropic is sharing three new metrics that it says could help artificial intelligence companies monitor the pace of development, days after CEO Dario Amodei rocked the industry by calling for a coordinated slowdown.

In a blog post on Thursday, the company said it measured AI-led research and development, oversight of AI agents and compute allocation within Anthropic, and it shared the methodologies to encourage other organizations to do the same. The metrics build on the three-step slowdown plan that Amodei published on Saturday, which was light on specifics about what a practical implementation would include.

"As the world considers pacing the frontier, we should do everything possible to minimize the gap between what frontier labs know and what the public knows," Anthropic said in Thursday's post. "This means better measuring the development of AI, reporting on it publicly, and giving society an opportunity to decide how to use this information." 

Amodei's call for a slowdown over the weekend received support from industry leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and Google DeepMind Chair Demis Hassabis, and it followed stark warnings from researchers about AI's growing potential to cause harm. Amodei said his plan aims to temper how quickly model capabilities improve without "sacrificing commercial advantage or the United States' lead in AI."

For its first metric, Anthropic said it determined its Claude models are "not operating fully autonomously" for any subset of the research and development work that it measured.

"We hope to model that transparency by releasing these measurements, and we'll continue to do so," Anthropic said.

WATCH: Why AI labs are calling for a slowdown

watch now