From IMO Gold to Solving a Millennium Problem in Just ~14 Months
felpix_ · x · 2026-09-08
felpix notes it took only 14 months from LLMs first scoring gold at the IMO to solving a Millennium Prize Problem — and publicly available LLMs are less than 4 years old. He quips that even Terence Tao would be jealous of such a prodigious performance, with linked drama in the follow-up.
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