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Dario Amodei on Dwarkesh: 'We Are Near the End of the Exponential' — AGI 1-3 Years, Country of Geniuses by 2026-2027
In a wide-ranging Dwarkesh Podcast episode, Amodei argues we are approaching the 'endgame' of the exponential — not a plateau, but saturation of all human-benchmarked cognitive tasks. He puts 50% confidence on achieving a 'country of geniuses in a data center' by 2026-2027, while stressing the real bottleneck is deployment, regulation, and institutional trust — not the models themselves. Anthropic's ARR trajectory ($0 → $100M → $1B → $9-10B in successive years) and potential 2026 profitability underpin his confidence.
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