Anthropic is paying the firm that will evaluate it, and says in the same announcement that this is not how it should work.

Anthropic has named Accenture as the first embedded evaluator of its frontier models, with each company expecting to invest at least $1bn over five years. Anthropic will fund the work directly and says in the same announcement that funding should come from pooled or government sources instead, because neither exists yet. Accenture is already Anthropic’s largest Claude Code deployment, and there are still no standards for what embedded evaluators may access or must report.

Anthropic said on Friday that Accenture will embed evaluators inside the company to red-team its newest models, run alignment assessments and test safeguards. Samantha Oltman and Lynn Doan reported it for Bloomberg, noting the evaluators will hold access comparable to Anthropic’s own staff.

Each company expects to invest at least $1bn over five years. It is the first concrete implementation of a commitment made in Dario Amodei’s essay six days earlier, which TNW covered when...

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