"Comms Failure of the Millennium": OpenAI Criticized for Fumbling AI-Assisted Math Breakthrough Story
soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-11
- @skominers called the rollout "the comms failure of the Millennium": two world-class mathematicians solved a decades-old problem with help from AI, including their models — and the story went nowhere.
- He drafted the announcement they should have made: celebrate the milestone, emphasize expert + AI leverage, link to how models enable mathematical breakthroughs, tease more to come. "QED."
- @abhishekn quipped he should be in charge of all Math + AI comms, in a widely shared critique of frontier-lab PR storytelling.
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