OpenAI team trains Neon materials model with just 1,300 H200s, claims it beats GPT-6 Astra
willdepue · x · 2026-09-16
William Depue of OpenAI detailed his team's automated materials labs in Menlo Park, which close the loop between experiments and models: labs generate fresh data, models learn from it, and then decide what to try next.
- Using only 1,300 H200s plus months of proprietary experimental data, the team mid-trained and RL'd an open-source model into "Neon"
- Neon reportedly surpasses GPT-6 Astra on the team's internal analysis benchmark
- OpenAI post-training lead Liam Fedus publicly confirmed and praised the effort
A landmark AI-for-Science case of experiment-in-the-loop training with modest compute.
Related event: Periodic Labs beats GPT-6 on materials science with just 1,300 H200s(41 posts)→
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