Midjourney founder David Holz: rent 8x GB300 racks for a weekend to attack 3000 open math conjectures
ethanniser · x · 2026-09-02
The thread started as a tongue-in-cheek guide to making history: pay $200/mo for Claude, ask it to solve a long-unsolved math problem, and occasionally tell it "keep going."
Midjourney founder David Holz then did the math seriously: roughly 8x GB300 racks for one weekend ($150K in server cost) could take a run at all 3,000 major open math conjectures — and lamented nobody has done it yet. The original poster asked whether the idea ever went anywhere.
Related event: Midjourney's David Holz: Running Models In-House Beats API Costs(2 posts)→
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