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There is no public word on how many problems OpenAI spent $2,000 on without reaching a solution.

A skeptical aside: OpenAI reported only its ten successes, with no count of how many problems the $2,000-per-attempt spend produced no solution. ✦ AI generated

Article author (via Hacker News) · Simon Willison's Weblog · 2026-08-01 · original ↗

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(No news on how many problems they spent $2,000 on without reaching a solution though.)

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extends → OpenAI set an internal version of Astra, its next major model, on finding solutions to ten mathematical problems that have seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade, spending less than $2,000 at GPT-5.6 Sol token prices on each one.Article author (via Hacker News) · Simon Willison's Weblog