Anthropic co-founder; confirmed early signs of AI improving AI research. Jack Clark is a co-founder of Anthropic and writes the Import AI newsletter. In this corpus he is the Anthropic voice in the early-signs statement of January 10, 2026, reporting AI getting better at kernel development and autonomous fine-tuning while assigning essentially zero likelihood to fully recursively self-improving systems existing that month. The statement sits between OpenAI’s eight-months-to-intern-researchers report and the researchers-replaced-first claim that superseded it.
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Jack Clark
Anthropic co-founder and author of the Import AI newsletter whose January 2026 remark put the lab on record seeing early signs of AI doing components of AI research.
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- Welcome to January 10, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
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