Physicist: OpenAI's 88-Hour Solve Could Fund 600 Postdocs for a Year

Physicist Lucien Heurtier calculated that OpenAI's 88-hour Navier-Stokes run cost enough compute power to fund 600 postdocs for a year, sparking viral mockery about the economics of AI-driven research.

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