1、Anthropic Economic Index ReportThe Anthropic Economic Index report:Learning curvesAuthors Maxim Massenkoff,*Eva Lyubich,*Peter McCrory,*Ruth Appel,Ryan HellerAcknowledgements Tim Belonax,Keir Bradwell,Andy Braden,Dexter Callender III,Miriam Chaum,Madison Clark,Evan Frondorf,Deep Ganguli,Kunal Handa,
2、Hanah Ho,Owen Kaye-Kauderer,Jennifer Martinez,Miles McCain,Jared Mueller,Kelsey Nanan,Tyler Neylon,Dianne Penn,Sarah Pollack,Ankur Rathi,David Saunders,Michael Stern,Alex Tamkin,Kim Withee,Jack Clark*Lead authors of the reportPublished March 24,20262Anthropic Economic Index ReportIntroductionThe Ant
3、hropic Economic Index uses our privacy-preserving data analysis system to track how Claude is being used across the economy.Its part of our effort to understand the economic impacts of AI as early as possible,so that researchers and policymakers have adequate time to prepare.This latest report studi
4、es Claude usage in February 2026,building on the economic primitives framework introduced in our previous report(which used data from November 2025).Our sample covers February 5 to February 12,three months following the release of Claude Opus 4.5 and coincident with the release of Claude Opus 4.6.We
5、 first document how usage has changed relative to our previous reports:the rate of augmentation,collaborative interaction where the AI complements the users abilities,increased slightly in both Claude.ai and API traffic.In Claude.ai,usage diversified,with the top 10 tasks accounting for a smaller sh
6、are of usage last month than in November 2025.As a result of this diversification,the average conversation in Claude.ai had a slightly lower-wage task than in previous reports.We then focus on an important determinant of Claudes impact on the labor market and the broader economy:learning curves in C