Peter H. Diamandis

All right, well, let's get started.

The news out of Anthropic yesterday was stunning.

Let me set the stage for what we're going to be discussing for the next 30 minutes, unpacking.

Anthropic just published what I think is probably one of the most important documents an AI company has ever released.

And it's the reason we're recording this Unscheduled Moonshots podcast today.

The paper is called When AI Builds Itself.

And it's from the Anthropic Institute, written by Marina Favreau and Jack Clark.

Here's what they're saying.

AI is already accelerating development of AI itself.

Not theoretically, not in the lab someplace.

It's happening now.

Right now inside Anthropic, more than 80% of the code merged into their code base is written by Claude.

Their engineers are shipping 8x as much code per quarter as they were, you know, just a year back.

Claude, Opus 4.6 can now handle tasks that take a skilled human 12 hours.

A year ago, it could handle four minutes.

If the trend holds, Anthropic is saying that by the end of 2027, cloud will be able to do week-long tasks on its own.

And here's the stunning news.

After you put all this data together, after the trajectory charts, a company that's about to IPO for a trillion dollars with 640% user growth is causing a stir by calling for a temporary pause on global frontier AI.

Marina Favreau and Jack Clark wrote, quote, We believe it would be good for the world to have the option to slow or temporarily pause frontier AI development to enable societal structures and alignment research to keep up with the advancements of this technology.

Gents, I read that.