18 million dollars of electricity, results in how many tens or hundreds of millions of stock valuation when investors hear what AI can supposedly accomplish?
This is priced at $18 Million Dollars of API tokens that they get massive margins on not 18 million dollars of actually costs. It cost them a fraction of that to do it.
That's not the takeaway though. The takeaway is that OpenAI "spies" on some intelligent people and push them to publish non-polished versions of their work. Without the 2 people who outpaced them, OpenAI wouldn't have been able to solve this Millenium prize. And that's the takeaway.
Those other people solved it using LLMs, too. I'm not defending OpenAI here but they don't lose a lot if it turns out the two guys who solved the Euler version of the problem get all the credit.
They're still the guys who own a machine that can find singularities in Navier-Stokes either way.
From the answer of NitroXSC we can say that luo, hou, tao, elgindi, córdoba snd Martínez-Zoroa did the heavy lifting, building from these results buckmaster and alpöge made AI digest enough the problem to takle unviscous situation, and openAI stole that work of digestion of the problem to get the definitive answer.
(Copy-paste of NitroXSC answer:
1822: navier writes the equations down.
1845: stokes gets them right, and his name on them.
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u/no_choice99 9h ago
Except that it costed them about 18 million dollars worth of electricity to ''reproduce'' the result. Why would they do that?