Navier-Stokes proof burned 300B output tokens, $20-30M at consumer API prices
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-09
A developer estimates OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof consumed roughly 300 billion output tokens — $20-30 million at regular API prices. He asks how science at this compute scale can be sustained once AI companies stop chasing problems beyond Millennium Prize status, calling the result stunning enough to distract from all other research seminars.
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