Mathematician Elliot Glazer cast doubt on OpenAI Hodge conjecture rumors: likely just a special case
ElliotGlazer · x · 2026-09-20
Mathematician Elliot Glazer laid out his skeptical case against rumors that OpenAI's internal model has solved a Millennium Prize Problem:
- Smart money consensus: the lab rumors point to a new special case of the Hodge Conjecture, not the full conjecture — true at least since the 9/11 guest post on Terence Tao's blog; a popular reading in "High Math Circles" is Hodge for abelian varieties, consistent with Brockman's claim of "substantial progress."
- Special case ≠ full result: progress on a special case gives little reason to expect a full solution anytime soon.
- He issued large wagers specifically to call out bluffers, and says part of his info comes from trusted insiders he won't repeat publicly.
The most substantive counterpoint yet to the viral OpenAI math-breakthrough speculation.
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