Dario Amodei Walks Back His Own Timeline — 'I Don't Think We Can Make Progress at 10 Years Per Year' — as Anthropic Unveils Claude Science

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In a July 6 STAT interview tied to Anthropic's launch of Claude Science (a product for biologists and pharma), Amodei notably tempered his famous 'compressed 21st century' thesis, conceding models aren't yet good enough, researchers need time to learn the tools, and infrastructure and regulation lag. It's a rare public recalibration from the field's most aggressive accelerationist, paired with a concrete vertical product bet. For builders, the signal is that even the bull case is now pricing in a slower diffusion curve than the essays implied.