The Verge · Technology · 2026-09-12
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly
OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics. This week, it claimed one of its biggest prizes yet: a solution to a legendary Millennium Prize problem. Many mathematicians have watched OpenAI’s relentless advance with growing unease. To them, the company appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper.
Why it matters. Why it matters: OpenAI has spent the last few years planting flags across the increasingly difficult terrain in mathematics.
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