AI lab's Millennium problem run burned 300B output tokens, $20-30M at consumer prices
Paimaamu · x · 2026-09-09
Abhishek Nair estimates the compute behind the AI lab's Millennium Problem effort — roughly 300 billion output tokens — would cost a regular user $20-30 million at token prices. He asks how science sustains this level of investment once AI companies decide pursuing anything short of a Millennium Problem isn't worth their time. tszzl replies that, like all technologies, an equivalent agent swarm will cost about $1.50 within a year, and that this will mean an unprecedented Enlightenment regardless of today's costs.
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