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Anthropic Labs is roughly 20 rotating employees with a self-reported 20-30% hit rate, and it produced Claude Code and MCP
Business Insider's Stephen Council interviewed cofounder Ben Mann about the incubator behind Claude Code and the Model Context Protocol: about 20 people on rotation, idea reviews roughly every two weeks, weak prototypes killed fast, and a claimed 20-30% success rate on new product bets. Separate reporting says Labs was created in mid-2024 and will double headcount over the next six months, with Mike Krieger moving to co-lead alongside Mann and Ami Vora becoming CPO. The framing throughout is IPO preparation: turning frontier model capability into shippable product is now the stated bottleneck rather than model quality.
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