# Elon Musk says breakthroughs across fields are accelerating exponentially

> Original title: If you look closely enough, breakthroughs in everything are accelerating exponentially.

- Source: Elon Musk
- Published: 2026-10-29T03:03:32.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/ip8ax0xqxxljxtai38johxf7t
- Original: https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2115640651517939785

## Summary

Elon Musk says that if you look closely enough, breakthroughs in everything are accelerating exponentially. He adds that an exponential always starts off looking small.

## Post

If you look closely enough, breakthroughs in everything are accelerating exponentially. 

An exponential always starts off looking small.

## Quoted post @m_goes_distance

> this might be my last normal tweet before biotech goes vertical
> 
> i'm not a whistleblower. I don't work at Lilly, Novo or any of the big labs
> 
> but there is a massive shift happening in human biology right now. 
> 
> it's sitting in press releases and almost nobody reads them
> 
> the last 6 months alone:
> 
> - a once-daily pill roughly doubled median survival in metastatic pancreatic cancer (13.2 vs 6.6 months)
> - a one-time gene editing infusion cut hereditary angioedema attacks 87%, and 62% of patients stayed attack-free and off all other prevention for 6 months
> - a one-time gene edit for cholesterol dropped LDL up to 62%, and it held for over a year
> - a personalized mrna vaccine beat keytruda alone in a 1,137 patient melanoma phase 3
> - retatrutide hit ~28% weight loss in a phase 3
> - an ai-designed drug entered phase 3
> - a pill that regrows hair passed its second phase 3
> - an immunotherapy that could let some rectal cancer patients skip surgery, chemo and radiation just got fda approved
> - a man lived 271 days off dialysis on a pig kidney
> - human cells were caught passing chromosome-sized chunks of DNA to their neighbors, and it changes how the neighbors behave
> 
> we are on the verge of an era where the human body is a software problem and the update cycle gets shorter everyday
> 
> stick around, it's going to get weird
> 
> bio/acc

https://x.com/m_goes_distance/status/2115111611652276717