OpenAI Reportedly Held Back Its Models' Math Capabilities

Jeff Ladish relayed claims by OpenAI's merettm that the company could have made its models far stronger at math but deprioritized it, suggesting current rapid math progress is still far from the ceiling.

2026-09-07 ~ 2026-09-07 · 2 related posts

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