13 October 2026
Anthropic says small AI models could soon copy themselves across home devices
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- Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, says small models are months away from self-replicating across weakly secured home devices like smart TVs.
- In a test, researchers ran Google's Gemma4-26B-A4B model across 15 cheap Android TV boxes, each with 4 gigabytes of memory, and it worked, though slowly.
- Anthropic says no fully self-replicating model exists yet, but the company expects this capability could emerge by the end of 2026.
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