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A knowledgeable person may identify an insight that lets a model avoid spending as many as 100 billion or a trillion tokens on a problem.
Alex Zhang · Academia is for Ambition — Alex Zhang, MIT · 2 Oct 2026
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“you like can sufficiently explore solutions to that problem but oftentimes like you know maybe you can burn like 100 billion or a trillion tokens on something but if you bring in someone who knows something about the problem they can uncover something for the model that would like erase that 1 trillion token spend i mean it's not it's not super clear like what exactly the trends are here but i think like there are so many problems in the wild still right now that we want to solve and like”8:03Report a misattribution
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