OpenAI Offers Free GPT-5.6 to 100K Researchers as Harvard Physicist Cites 100x Speedup
新智元 · wechat · 2026-08-01
OpenAI has launched its 'Academic Researchers' program, aiming to provide 100,000 top scientists, mathematicians, and engineers with free access to its frontier models by 2027, starting with 10,000 spots this summer.
Yin Xi, the youngest tenoted Chinese-American professor at Harvard who recently joined OpenAI, shared how AI is revolutionizing scientific research. He noted a 100x speedup in his work, with AI generating code in weeks that would have taken him a decade. He emphasized AI's shift from solving problems to generating novel hypotheses.
OpenAI's data supports this trend: ChatGPT acknowledgments in arXiv math papers surged sevenfold in six months, surpassing 100 papers in early July. Currently, 1.3 million people use ChatGPT weekly for advanced math and science, with top researchers heavily utilizing it for complex, multi-hour tasks.
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