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MTS: Anthropic’s Michael Sellitto told the IMF Claude could lead 80-90% of frontier model training by next year

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Why it matters

Viral (~586k views) summary of Michael Sellitto’s remarks on the IMF’s AI and cyber risks panel (Oct 16), the main way the projection spread.

Summary

Posted Fri Oct 16 17:14:08 +0000 2026 by MTS (@MTSlive); 586,697 views, 1,233 likes, 43 reposts when read via api.fxtwitter.com on 2026-10-17. Text-only post summarising Sellitto’s IMF panel remarks. Note: the post says ‘80-90% of frontier model training’; in the IMF video Sellitto speaks of the share of ‘the process of building the next-generation model’ led by Claude (0% at the start of 2026, 3% in April, 26% in August) and says it ‘could be 80%, 90%’ sometime next year.

Archived text

SITUATION DETECTED: Anthropic’s Head of Global Affairs Michael Sellitto has told the IMF that Anthropic projects Claude could lead 80-90% of frontier model training by next year, up from 3% in April.

Source: x.com/MTSlive/status/2111143669575401793Archived 2026-10-17 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 588,235 views, 1,234 likes, 43 reposts, 27 replies (at fetch time)

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    Sellitto at the IMF: Claude could lead 80–90% of model building next year