Is Sam Altman Serious About a Room-Temperature Superconductor? He Said ‘Let's Try'
Sam Altman has taken up an online dare to hunt a room-temperature superconductor, replying to a satirical post with "you know what, let's try."
The remark landed days into a dispute over OpenAI's Millennium Prize claim. The company says its agents solved one of seven famous math problems worth $1 million each.
A Viral Dare Follows the Math Fight
A developer needled OpenAI, arguing that cracking a few more Millennium problems would silence every skeptic. Sam Altman replied with two words, "ok fine."
Hours later, another user floated a satirical rumor that Anthropic had quietly found a room-temperature superconductor. The joke warned that a rival might throw 10,000 agents at the problem for 88 hours to beat the press release. The post lifted both figures straight from OpenAI's account of its disputed Navier-Stokes proof.
That account is already contested. Two mathematicians, Tristan Buckmaster of New York University and Anthropic's Levent Alpoge, say the work may lean on their unpublished research. OpenAI denies touching it.
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