"This is what Ilya saw": AI commentators say new OpenAI math results hit like a nuclear bomb
daniel_mac8 · x · 2026-10-07
- Beff Jezos resurfaced OpenAI's release of new mathematical results from an internal frontier model with the line "This is what Ilya saw."
- Quoting it, danielmac8 argues OpenAI is downplaying the milestone for PR: reasoning models went from failing basic arithmetic to solving decades-old open problems in just two years.
- His take: math is only the beginning, and most people underappreciate how AI will transform the entire scientific enterprise.
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