Benchmark researcher Ofir Press jokes he'll stop saying millennium problems are too hard to saturate
OfirPress · x · 2026-09-09
Princeton researcher Ofir Press sheepishly walked back a claim from his benchmark-building talks: he used to say the Millennium Prize Problems "could be a benchmark but it would take 100 years to saturate." After reports that a model cracked one of the problems, he wrote "won't be saying that anymore," joking that he looks forward to the millennium-prize benchmark being "fully saturated by the end of 2028." The quip captures the industry mood that frontier models are outpacing expert expectations on fundamental science.
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