Comment by MichaelDairy

3 hours ago

I think Anthropic might the frontier lab hiring contractors through data vendors to formalize mathematical textbooks for them at a rate of 170-200 dollars per hour. This was mainly through Alignerr which has the worst reputation for not paying their contractors. They have been hiring since February as far as I can recall. This is in addition to all the internal people they might have working on this. If they have been formalizing all this work for the past 9 months before having Claude use all this data needed to formalize FLT, then it wouldn't be Claude formalizing FLT in just 11 days. Same with the upcoming results they will claim Claude came up with, but in fact they have been hiring frontier researchers working on very niche topics through Micro1. It's all a marketing ploy before their IPO.