Ted Moskovitz (Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic) RAAIS 2026

Ted Moskovitz leads the Science of Scaling team at Anthropic, the group that works out how to turn compute into smarter models. In this RAAIS 2026 fireside with Air Street Capital's Nathan Benaich, he argues that frontier scaling has become an empirical science - a discipline for cutting uncertainty before spending the compute, not just buying more of it. They get into the honest measure of AI acceleration (it's the counterfactual, not the benchmark), why a bigger model can be cheaper than splitting a task across small ones, whether a model can have research taste, and why safety and capability turn out to be the same axis. Plus the highest-leverage AI work to do in 2026, and why Anthropic's London office no longer feels like a satellite. Recorded live at RAAIS 2026 in London. Timestamp: 00:00 - Meet Ted Moskovitz and the Science of Scaling team 00:45 - What "the science of scaling" actually means 01:18 - Why scaling is a science, not an art 02:55 - Big labs vs the new "neo labs" 04:47 - How a research finding reaches the product 06:44 - What neuroscience carries over to AI (and what doesn't) 09:12 - "When AI builds itself" and the real measure of acceleration 10:33 - Trust, bypass mode, and the latest model jumps 11:42 - One big model vs many small ones 13:13 - Can a model have research taste? 15:39 - How safety research makes products better 17:36 - Emergent misalignment and the alignment race 19:14 - The highest-leverage AI work in 2026 20:21 - Inside Anthropic's London office --- The Research and Applied AI Summit (RAAIS) is a community for entrepreneurs and researchers who accelerate the science and applications of AI technology for the greater good. The London-based AI conference is a one-day event covering machine learning, deep learning, reinforcement learning, data science, healthcare and life sciences. RAAIS is presented by The RAAIS Foundation, a non-for-profit with a mission to education and research in AI for the common good. Past speakers have included researchers and leaders from Google DeepMind, Anthropic, ElevenLabs, Isomorphic Labs, Meta, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Odyssey, Recursion Pharmaceuticals, Benevolent AI, Graphcore, Darktrace, Niantic, Stanford, Berkeley, Cambridge, UCL, the University of Toronto, the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, the Tony Blair Institute, The New York Times, and Bloomberg. RAAIS: https://raais.co/ The RAAIS Foundation: https://www.raais.org/ Air Street Capital (https://www.airstreet.com/) is a venture capital firm investing in AI-first companies. The State of AI Report: https://www.stateof.ai/ Air Street Press: https://press.airstreet.com/