GPT-6 Astra helps solve FrontierMath open problem, Epoch's first 'Major advance'
Jsevillamol · x · 2026-09-20
Epoch AI announced that another open problem from its FrontierMath: Open Problems benchmark has been solved. The solution was elicited by Becker, Greger, and Dominik Peters in an interactive session with GPT-6 Astra — Peters originally proposed the problem for the benchmark. It is the first solution Epoch has classified as a 'Major advance', marking a new level of capability for frontier models on research-grade mathematics.
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