Blogger Claims OpenAI Could Lure Scientists With Free Compute to Mine Their Research Ideas
ns123abc · x · 2026-09-10
In a thread amplified by Brian Roemmele, ns123abc speculates that OpenAI's strategy is to give researchers limited compute to run AI-assisted science, harvest the resulting academic data, then internalize the best ideas and rerun them with its own effectively unlimited compute. This is opinion/speculation, not an official statement.
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