$22.5M of Compute in One Week: The New Price Tag for Math Breakthroughs
vykthur · x · 2026-09-09
vykthur estimates that an AI-driven (mathematics) research breakthrough burned roughly $22.5 million worth of compute in a single week, suggesting this may be the emerging going rate for scientific breakthroughs in time and cost. He congratulates the parties involved while hoping process and credit-assignment issues get resolved, arguing research and science have decidedly entered a new era.
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