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Greg Brockman says he was inspired by mathematicians such as Galois and Gauss, whom he characterized as working on 100- to 400-year time horizons.
Greg Brockman · The Changing Physics of Cybersecurity and Drug Development with OpenAI President Greg Brockman · 15 Oct 2026
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“And I was very inspired by mathematicians like Galois or Gauss, right? These people who were working on like a hundred,”
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