Mathematician Sylvia Serfati: most OpenAI results would deserve a Fields Medal
coherence · x · 2026-10-14
A retweet surfacing French mathematician Sylvia Serfati's take on AI's revolution in mathematics: "Most of OpenAI's results would deserve the Fields Medal." A remarkably strong endorsement of frontier models' math capabilities from a working mathematician; the full interview context is not included in the post.
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