Mathematicians Ask: Where Exactly Is OpenAI's Claimed Millennium Problem Progress?
littmath · x · 2026-10-07
littmath questions what OpenAI's "substantial progress on a Millennium problem" actually refers to, saying the released material contains cool stuff but nothing matching the claim. A reply from Elliot Glazer mocks that the progress boils down to "2 counterexamples to the Shafarevich conjecture — they're double-dipping!" The thread captures growing skepticism toward the hype around OpenAI's math results release.
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