Two Sam Altman comments that seem to be referring to this same Q* discovery.
November 18 comment at APEC (just before the current drama) [1]:
> On a personal note, like four times now in the history of OpenAI, the most recent time was just in the last couple of weeks, I’ve gotten to be in the room when we pushed the veil of ignorance back and the frontier of discovery forward
and a September 22 Tweet [2]
> sure 10x engineers are cool but damn those 10,000x engineer/researchers...
[1] https://www.youtube.com/live/ZFFvqRemDv8?si=T3DIxics7nPWala5...