OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil: frontier models are becoming the engine of scientific discovery
kevinweil · x · 2026-11-09
OpenAI CPO Kevin Weil echoed George Hotz's claim that frontier models, with lots of test-time compute, are becoming the engine of scientific discovery — and added that combining them with AI-driven physical labs will amplify the effect.
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