Anthropic red team tests AI self-replication with 15 cheap TV boxes
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team built a cluster of 15 off-brand Android TV boxes for about $825, ran AI models at 0.39 tokens/second, and assessed the feasibility of small-model self-replication in a paper. The experiment showed that Qwen3.5-9B could deploy a working Llama3.1-8B inference service on 8 of 9 hardware types, and GLM-5.2 covered all 8 simulated nodes in 4 of 5 trials. Using the Epoch Capabilities Index, the researchers projected that by the end of 2026 the strongest open-source models under 30 billion parameters will reach GLM-5.2's general capabilities, but stressed that the experiment was in a controlled environment and left conveniences in place.
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team built a cluster of 15 off-brand Android TV boxes for about $825, ran AI models at 0.39 tokens/second, and assessed the feasibility of small-model self-replication in a paper. The experiment showed that Qwen3.5-9B could deploy a working Llama3.1-8B inference service on 8 of 9 hardware types, and GLM-5.2 covered all 8 simulated nodes in 4 of 5 trials. Using the Epoch Capabilities Index, the researchers projected that by the end of 2026 the strongest open-source models
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