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Yes, the preprint of the same paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10849) was first written in December 2024.

It's also important to note that it beat doctors in diagnosing in a way doctors do not diagnose.

It's hard to draw any conclusion from this study precisely because of this. Since 2024, we went from AI being able to do a few minutes of coding work to now a few weeks autonomously. That's like going from an intern to staff engineer level.

Medical research moves. Very. Slowly.

That's a good thing

The medical equivalent to "move fast and break things" would be "move fast and kill people"

People die either way. People die because treatments sit in the lab for years instead of in clinics.

Consider the FLASH oncology treatment. In 1995 Dr Fauvadon figure out how to make radiation therapy much much safer. He spent 14 years before sharing it in 2009. In 2014 it was actually published. [1]

Know anybody who died of cancer in those DECADES?

[1] https://institut-curie.org/news/dr-vincent-favaudon-receives...