OpenAI's $2K Math Breakthroughs Signal Exponential AGI Compute Trajectory
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-08-02
Citing OpenAI's recent achievement of 10 major math breakthroughs for under $2,000, the author argues that the cost of superhuman intelligence is plummeting. They predict a future with the equivalent of billions of John von Neumanns working 24/7 at 1000x human speed, generating world-changing discoveries daily as compute scales up.
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