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OpenAI Says a Secret AI Model Cracked Hundreds of Open Math Problems in One Prompt—Mathematicians Want Receipts
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OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts on GitHub on Tuesday, all produced by an internal model the company has not released.
Key facts
- That said, only 162 of the 722 papers come with a computer-checked main result, according to a formalization catalog in the repository
- Some further thoughts on the 372 results released by OpenAI today, across 722 manuscripts
- OpenAI says it will add Lean formalizations as it obtains them; for now, 162 of the 722 manuscripts have one
- Anthropic took a different route with its Lean-checked Fermat's Last Theorem proof last month, posting all 13 million lines publicly on GitHub
Summary
OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts in 372 result families on GitHub from an unreleased internal model. Only 162 of the 722 papers have a Lean-formalized main result, and OpenAI warns that some unformalized results could have issues. MIT's Andrew Sutherland says the one-prompt, single-agent claim is unverified until the model is released, and the release omits the prompts that an advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study recommended disclosing. It's a bold claim and a potentially significant breakthrough in the field of mathematics.