OpenAI burned millions in compute on $1M prize: 10,000 agents, 88 hours, 130B tokens
Hesamation · x · 2026-09-09
Hesamation reveals OpenAI spent millions of dollars in compute to solve a problem with a $1M prize:
- They used an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra"
- Spawned 10,000 concurrent agents
- Ran for 88 hours
- Generated 130 billion output tokens
Even juicier, OpenAI responded: they saw none of the users' work, "but we CANNOT RULE OUT the possibility that their chats improved our model" — prompting the quip "own your weights."
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