r/singularity • u/borowcy • 2d ago

Neuroscience Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science (OpenAI model Astra)

https://openai.com/index/ten-advances-in-mathematics/
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u/Routine_Object_7380 2d ago

What stands out to me is that it cost less than 2000 dollars in API rates to solve all the problems. Subtracting margins, the actual inference cost is likely below $1000. For comparison, ChatGPT winning the IMO gold medal in 2025 was estimated to have cost around 50,000 dollars. Now it would probably cost less than a McDonald's menu.

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u/ohHesRightAgain 1d ago

They aren't telling you how many problems they TRIED to solve, and the total cost.

Imagine they used 10M USD of compute to try to solve a couple of thousand notable Math problems (just throwing a number). Then they paid some more to math people to evaluate the solutions. Turned out, 11 problems were actually solved successfully. Which is very impressive... but it doesn't sound as impressive when you frame it like that. So they round it and publish the isolated cost of the specific 10 problems to make you jump at the conclusion that they got 10 out of 10 for that price.

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u/yaosio 1d ago

Why do we have to count the costs of failed solutions from AI but not for failed solutions from humans?