OpenAI Reports Ten Advances on Math Problems Open for a Decade — AI the News That's Fit to Prompt #85
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OpenAI Reports Ten Advances on Math Problems That Had Been Open for a Decade
The results span lattice cryptography, quantum complexity, operator algebras and more, credited to an internal version of Astra. The caveat is recent: OpenAI made almost this exact claim last year and a mathematician had to correct the record. Published for verification is not the same as verified. |
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