#024 - Eleven days: three labs, one checkable proof | SynthAIcast
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Three labs proved something this week. Only one of them let the world check.
On Tuesday, an extraordinary claim, announced on a phone call with reporters. Eighty eight hours of compute, ten thousand agents. And a file that was never filed.
Two mathematicians had been working the same front for almost a year, out of their own research funds. What they published, anyone can verify.
Four days earlier, another lab had done the exact opposite. Eleven days of work, thirteen million lines, and the door left open.
On Friday, a one petabyte map of the human genome. The only result of the week an outside lab can test against its own patients.
And a commission of the French Academy of Sciences, in eighteen sixty four, where one of the two scientists refused to show up.
Three signals. One thread. One question…
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🔗 THE SOURCES, BY SIGNAL
Signal 1 - the proof announced, never filed
• MIT Technology Review - the claim and the controversy, 08/09
• Science - the timeline of the exchanges and Buckmaster's statement, 09/09
• CNBC - OpenAI's denial, in its own terms, 09/09
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Signal 2 - eleven days, and the door left open
• Anthropic - the formal proof and its public repository, 04/09
• Nature - ten years expected, eleven days spent, 09/09
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Signal 3 - one petabyte you can download
• Google DeepMind - AlphaGenome Atlas, nine billion variants, 08/09
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Perspective - the cost of what was not shown
• TechCrunch - three hundred billion output tokens, the arithmetic, 08/09
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🎧 GOING FURTHER
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