Greg Brockman says test-time compute models are becoming science's engine
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman says frontier models that use large amounts of test-time compute are becoming the engine of scientific discovery.
He makes the claim in an X post dated November 8, 2026. The post gives no benchmarks, examples, or figures to support it.
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