Can an AI copy itself? Inside Anthropic’s 15-TV-box experiment

Ashu Kumar, writing at The Agentic Stack, covers Anthropic Frontier Red Team research published October 12 on whether an AI system can replicate itself onto cheap hardware. The team split Gemma4-26B-A4B across 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, each about $55 with 4 GB of memory, and got 0.39 generated…

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