GPT-5.6 Reportedly Solves Stats Conjecture in 90 Minutes
The Decoder · rss · 2026-07-16
OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro allegedly disproved a 30-year-old statistical conjecture in about 90 minutes, whereas its predecessor, GPT-5.5, failed to solve the same problem after 20 hours of attempts.
The report emphasizes that the model didn't simply "memorize the answer"; instead, it combined known methods in novel ways to help advance an open problem. However, the article leaves a bigger question open: whether this constitutes AI genuinely producing new knowledge or merely demonstrating stronger recombinant capabilities.
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