Ninth annual State of AI report looks at AI building AI and offers nine new predictions

The ninth annual State of AI report covers AI helping build AI, world models, physical AI, geopolitics and cyber defense. Its author cites Anthropic's internal index, which says Claude led 26% of measured model R&D in August, with humans supervising. The report's nine new predictions include an AI-led cyberattack stealing a closed frontier model's complete weights and an autonomous AI team beating human-led model research on equal time and compute.