Lisan al Gaib: Anthropic quote on small models self-replicating on IoT devices
Lisan al Gaib @scaling01X
Why it matters
Most-viewed post about the Anthropic self-replication study in this set (about 232k views).
Summary
Posted Oct 12, 2026 (19:30 UTC). The pseudonymous account Lisan al Gaib (@scaling01) posts two quotes from the Anthropic post with a screenshot: ‘small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices’ and ‘In our evals, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested’. No commentary of its own.
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ANTHROPIC: “small AI models may be months away from being capable enough to self-replicate on commercial IoT devices”
“In our evals, a 9B model got inference running on 8 of the 9 hardware types we tested”
