$15M of compute to verify one equation property shows how brute-force the search was
pmddomingos · x · 2026-09-10
AI researcher Pedro Domingos notes that $15 million worth of compute was spent to verify a property of a single equation — a staggering amount that, in his words, tells you how brute-force the underlying search was.
The comment points at recent large-scale automated theorem proving / formal math verification efforts, suggesting the "massive brute-force search plus formal verification" route works, but at a rarely seen cost scale.
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