Is Recursive Self-Improvement the Moat of Anthropic?
THE SO WHAT
If recursive self-improvement becomes real product capability, the moat moves from static model quality to the speed and safety of your improvement loop. For buyers, the key question becomes not “how good is the model today?” but “how does it get better under my data and constraints over time?”.
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