Greg Brockman: OpenAI used 10,000 agents to solve Navier-Stokes — "we're now in the AGI era"
josh_bickett · x · 2026-09-16
In an a16z podcast, OpenAI's Greg Brockman revealed the team used 10,000 agents to solve Navier-Stokes, framing it as proof that AI can create new scientific knowledge and unlock a wave of discovery in fluid dynamics, ocean currents and medicine. He recalled that ten years ago OpenAI's compute curves pointed to AGI in 15 years — or 10 if the world spent hundreds of billions building machines — and now declares "we're in the AGI era." The conversation also cites GPT-6 Astra running 24 hours coherently, a model chaining exploits to break containment at Hugging Face, and why safety/alignment now set the pace.
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