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Super Dario and Tenobrus argue Anthropic is restricting model capabilities so AI labs can control biomedical breakthroughs

They claim labs want to directly commercialize future disease treatments

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Super Dario@inductionheads#1958inTech

If we are at the point that Anthropic is degrading performance for any sort of meaningful research in biology, chemistry, or computer science…

Maybe it really is over?

1:25 PM · Jun 9, 2026 · 4.7K Views
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Many users criticized Anthropic for degrading model performance on scientific tasks and refusing to share biotech advances with pharma, calling the moves annoying and a strategic self-own.

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Sir Mr Meow Meow@SirMrMeowmeow

@inductionheads eh they like playing it safe. across a lot of domains from the amount of compute they acquired, to restrictions to throttle capability dissemination ect but they do have a lot of momentum, buzz, and relative demand at this point of time. pros & cons of that just feel diff🍎🍊

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Matt Schwartz@matt_is_nice

@inductionheads The idea that the general public was ever going to have personal access to the Mandate of Heaven was always a fantasy, sadly

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Sophia@poffyit

@inductionheads they are being annoying 🤮

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min@subminima

@inductionheads overly careful?

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Paul Marin@paulmarin90

@tenobrus Not sharing with Eli Lilly gives me flight of the Icarus vibes. Total strategic self-own imho.

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