Viral Thread on the Accelerating Leap in LLM Capabilities
morqon · x · 2026-07-16
This retweet summarizes the pace of LLM progress as a steep curve:
- In 2023, they struggled with 4th-grade math
- In 2024, they could handle high school math
- In 2025, they allegedly won a gold medal at the IMO
- It then offers a more radical take: GPT-5.6 can already solve frontier math/statistics problems, making an IMO perfect score "no longer news"
The quoted post discusses a specific statistical result: AI helped solve a theoretical problem regarding FDR control under correlated data in multiple hypothesis testing, extending the Benjamini-Hochberg method beyond independent assumptions.
Related event: Debate Intensifies Over the Rapid Leap in LLM Mathematical Capabilities(3 posts)→
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