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The speaker suspects that a team of the world’s most brilliant people at OpenAI with 100 times less compute would make less progress than OpenAI’s current compute-and-staffing setup.
Unidentified speaker · Noam Brown – Agent swarms, alignment, & recursive self-improvement · 17 Sept 2026
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“You it's um, it's not enough to just be extremely smart and I think one argument for this is if you had like a hundred X less compute”
“and all the most brilliant people in the world working at OpenAI,”
“how much progress would it be making relative to having the amount of compute that we have now with the amount of people we have?”
“I suspect it would be less progress,”
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