A $20,000 AI summer project aims to attack open math problems
RexDouglass · x · 2026-07-24
The post proposes a summer project where five academics each get five ChatGPT Pro and five Claude Max subscriptions, plus a $2,000 participation fee, for a total monthly budget of $20,000.
The idea is to spend that budget aggressively on open math problems and see whether concentrated inference effort can produce valuable breakthroughs. In the quoted thread, the author extends the argument: universities should have dedicated, large inference budgets for open math, physics, and even cybersecurity problems, because current AI labs still do not treat these problems seriously enough.
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