OpenAI slammed for fumbling the comms on landmark AI-assisted math breakthrough
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-11
Investor Scott Kominers calls OpenAI's recent rollout "the comms failure of the Millennium": two world-class mathematicians solved a decades-old problem with help from AI including OpenAI's models, and OpenAI should have owned that story — celebrating expert+AI power and teasing more to come — instead of fumbling it.
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