Anthropic and Accenture Embed Evaluators Inside the Lab in a $2B+ Safety Bet

The two companies will place Accenture Faculty evaluators inside Anthropic to red-team models, with each side committing at least $1 billion over five years — as Claude reportedly now drives a quarter of Anthropic's own R&D.

Anthropic and Accenture are formalizing an unusually deep evaluation arrangement, according to @marcopapa99. The plan embeds Accenture Faculty evaluators directly inside Anthropic to red-team its models, with each company reportedly committing at least $1 billion over five years. That structure — outside evaluators working from within — is the private-sector mirror of the onsite-audit model California just mandated.

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