OpenAI's 88-hour supercomputing run could fund 600 postdocs for a year

Physicist Lucien Heurtier calculated that the compute cost of OpenAI's 88-hour Navier–Stokes solve could fund 600 postdocs for a year, sparking debate over whether such massive compute spending is justified for a single scientific result.

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