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Anthropic says Claude has carved out its own space to ponder
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Anthropic researchers have identified a specific internal workspace in the Claude AI model, dubbed 'J-Space,' where the model performs reasoning tasks separate from its output. This discovery fuels ongoing debates about machine consciousness and AI architecture.
Add us on Google Updated Mon, July 6, 2026 at 10:07 PM UTC Illustration: Maura Kearns/Axios Anthropic said Monday that it has identified a small internal workspace Claude uses to hold and manipulate ideas without putting them into words—a structure the company says bears intriguing similarities to how humans consciously access thoughts.
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