Researchers Debate AI Spend on Millennium Prize Problems

Susan Zhang posted that $1T of infrastructure buildout targets $1M prize math problems and linked to a wager that no Millennium Prize problem will be solved by 2027 even with AI assistance. Leo Boytsov replied that the figure is closer to 5T and that the spend aims to create continuous capabilities across coding, math, and science problems. He asked what would happen if the effort produced thousands of discoveries that raise US GDP by 10 percent. Both posts appear in the visible conversation.