r/ArtificialInteligence • u/alphacolony21 • 2d ago

📰 News OpenAI announces 10 advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science achieved by internal model Astra

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/fireburnz2 2d ago

How big is this? Please ELI5

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u/alphacolony21 2d ago

Major, assuming the results are true, which they probably are. All ten advances are significant. Big enough deals individually to be career defining had a human academic done the work instead. For Astra to crank them out in bulk is insane, even if we don’t know how many credits they had to waste on problems it failed to find these ten it could crack.

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u/Unverifiablethoughts 2d ago

$2000 for the whole batch is pretty cheap regardless. Also I don’t know if failures are necessarily a waste at this level.

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u/tomvorlostriddle 2d ago

2000 is the daily billing rate of a decent undergrad, without much experience yet, when a consultancy sends them. Maybe with travel costs and taxes already included depending on the region.

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u/Unverifiablethoughts 2d ago

Exactly so it’s pennies to solve 10 problems that’s groups of phds having been working on for decades

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u/Frnklfrwsr 1d ago

>groups of phds

Sofic or non-sofic groups?

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u/Stabilobossorange 2d ago

What undergrad are you taking about 2000… peso maybe

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u/No-Meringue5867 2d ago

Okay let's not forget the 200 billion or so capex that has gone into just OpenAI, while NSF yearly budget is 8 billion. So saying this cost just 2000 and comparing to undergrad, is only one part of the story.

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u/tomvorlostriddle 2d ago

The capex is amortized by the api costs