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Noam Brown says OpenAI blog post shows steep Codex spending

By Egleze Editorial Desk · Published September 18, 2026 · Dwarkesh Patel Podcast · How a swarm of 10,000 agents solved Navier-Stokes
Noam Brown says OpenAI blog post shows steep Codex spending
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How a swarm of 10,000 agents solved Navier-Stokes

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"We show, for example, the amounts that researchers are spending on Codex. The top 1%, I think, as of early August, were spending $7,000-8,000 a day on Codex for internal use. That’s on an exponential."

Noam Brown says an OpenAI blog post on internal acceleration included figures on researchers’ Codex usage. He claims the top 1% of researchers were spending about $7,000–$8,000 a day as of early August, and says the trend is rising fast.

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How a swarm of 10,000 agents solved Navier-Stokes
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