The insanity of 10.000 agents running
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Everyone is talking about the proof and surrounding controversy, but the sheer scale of OpenAIs effort receives little mention.
10.000 agents working for 88 hours. That is almost exactly one entire century of continuous work. I think this really drives home just how massive of an advantage a strong AI + available compute are going to be: "A country's worth of geniuses in a Datacenter". OpenAI casually threw a century worth of effort at a problem, based on a rumor. Not quite a century with of human effort, perhaps, but we might not be far off.
Those numbers should be at least as much of a shock as solving the problem.