Ask HN: What if we funded math research like we fund AI labs?
By Murfalo · 2026-09-11 · 2 points · 1 comments
The annual U.S. federal budget for basic math research is <$1B. OpenAI alone just raised ~$122B, and frontier labs are increasingly concentrating enormous amounts of compute and human talent on open math problems. We seem to be entering a strange situation where a handful of pri…
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