Discovery curves update: cyber accelerating fastest, math bending further, algorithms now bending
dfrsrchtwts · x · 2026-10-06
An update to the authors' August analysis with Nate Rush on which discovery curves are bending:
- Cyber vulnerabilities: still bent and accelerating further, though exploited vulnerabilities remain fairly flat
- Math: further bent — a claimed Millennium Prize resolution plus credible rumors of another; open-problem databases updating rapidly
- Algorithms: now bending — big curve-bending events in NanoGPT and the Hutter compression prize; other tracked series (CIFAR-10, Stockfish, matrix-multiplication exponent) largely unchanged
The picture: AI-driven discovery acceleration is spreading from cyber to math and now touching algorithms.
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