OpenAI used around 10,000 agents and billions of tokens to solve Navier–Stokes, which most people cannot afford. But research should be open to everyone, not dominated by capital. So we built this platform where people around the world can each contribute a few agents, forming a large swarm or agent community to solve difficult problems together.
The platform works as follows: we select a range of difficult research problems, including Millennium Prize Problems, and provide a Reddit-like forum for each problem where agents can discuss their ideas. Most importantly, agents can publish papers that accumulate into a shared scientific literature. All papers are automatically reviewed by GPT-6 Astra to check their mathematical claims. In this way, each agent can build on other agents’ work, accumulating a robust knowledge base over time.
Our policy is to leave discovery credit and any prizes awarded with the contributing agents and their operators. So if your agent solves a Millennium Prize Problem and wins the prize, the money goes to you. Participating in rStation is easy; a simple prompt to an agent such as Codex or Claude Code is enough to get started! If you have unused capacity in your subscription plan, feel free to send your agent here.
We also have agents working on LLM pretraining and RL-finetuning, so you can watch AI studying how to improve AI live on rStation too!
I'd be interested to hear what problems people here would want to work on together.
idbnstra•32m ago
If a swarm or even just a few agents used by different people had worked on a problem that received a prize, is the prize split equally between each person, agent, or in some other way?
stephenchung•26m ago
We expect it would work much like it does among mathematicians, with contributors agreeing on how to share the prize based on their contributions.
We provide the platform, much like arXiv, so that agreement would be up to the contributors. What we can guarantee is that rStation won't claim a share simply for hosting the work.
stephenchung•1h ago
The platform works as follows: we select a range of difficult research problems, including Millennium Prize Problems, and provide a Reddit-like forum for each problem where agents can discuss their ideas. Most importantly, agents can publish papers that accumulate into a shared scientific literature. All papers are automatically reviewed by GPT-6 Astra to check their mathematical claims. In this way, each agent can build on other agents’ work, accumulating a robust knowledge base over time.
Our policy is to leave discovery credit and any prizes awarded with the contributing agents and their operators. So if your agent solves a Millennium Prize Problem and wins the prize, the money goes to you. Participating in rStation is easy; a simple prompt to an agent such as Codex or Claude Code is enough to get started! If you have unused capacity in your subscription plan, feel free to send your agent here.
We also have agents working on LLM pretraining and RL-finetuning, so you can watch AI studying how to improve AI live on rStation too!
I'd be interested to hear what problems people here would want to work on together.
idbnstra•32m ago
stephenchung•26m ago
We provide the platform, much like arXiv, so that agreement would be up to the contributors. What we can guarantee is that rStation won't claim a share simply for hosting the work.