It wouldn't surprise me that a company with an effectively unlimited budget could fund enough researchers to solve breakthrough problems, all while using LLM's (which are excellent research and exploration tools!) and then claim that the LLM found the breakthrough. The amount of money Anthropic has to play with is >10,000x what entire fields of research have, I think people don't appreciate how few resources we spend to support people working on hard problems that don't have clear commercial applications.

Very similar story with security research, LLM's are a super useful tool while hunting vulnerabilities, but it turns out when the entire software industry starts throwing tens of billions of dollars at vuln. research, a lot of stuff gets unearthed, something security people have been insisting on for years and complaining that their work is underfunded and under-resourced.