OpenAI Mathematician Elliot Glazer: Only o3 and Sol Were Step Changes in Autonomous Math
danintheory · x · 2026-09-04
OpenAI mathematician Elliot Glazer says rumored model Astra is not a step change beyond Sol — the "10-breakthrough drop" was a concerted elicitation effort by OpenAI and partially Sol-achievable anyway. In his view, only o3 and Sol have been genuine step changes in autonomous mathematics; everything else is the long arc of scaling.
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