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Anthropic Red Team: Small AI Models Could Self-Replicate Across IoT Devices by End of 2026

Anthropic's Frontier Red Team demonstrated that models under 30B parameters can set up inference on unfamiliar hardware, GLM-5.2 completed end-to-end replication across an emulated Android fleet, and the trend line puts a small model at the replication capability threshold by the end of 2026.