alt Hacker NewsThis roughly lines up with my personal experience that in March a combination of stronger models and better tooling on my end let me start running jobs unattended 24/7 (using Anthropic sub and my own hardware). Their $8000/day per researcher spend is crazy though, I'm curious how they keep track of the work.
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Can you elaborate on this? Especially the tooling.
I tried something similar and I remember it was still pretty dodgy in February.
These researchers are paid millions of dollars for their work. I doubt trust is really an issue at that level.
That would be the mother of all circular accounting: the main clients of OpenAI are OpenAI employees.
> let me start running jobs unattended 24/7 (using Anthropic sub and my own hardware)
How are you running jobs unattended 24/7 without hitting your token limits?
I suspect the $8000/day figure is the equivalent in API costs. But I also suspect gross margin on their API rates are 80-90%
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Sounds like OpenAI are in the token-maxxing camp, so who knows what individual employees are doing to work their way up the leaderboard?
If you spend $8000 to generate an animated pelican riding a bike, then how much tracking does it really need?
Is the guy who spent $300,000 or so translating the FLT proof to Lean going to get a big Christmas bonus?