OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman: frontier models with test-time compute are becoming the engine of scientific discovery
gdb · x · 2026-11-09
OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman argues that frontier models, when given lots of test-time compute, are becoming the engine of scientific discovery — signaling AI's shift from research assistant to a primary driver of new scientific findings.
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