Stanford prof pushes back: OpenAI's math edge is built on academia's centuries of work
anshulkundaje · x · 2026-10-21
Responding to claims that OpenAI beats academic math departments and Anthropic will soon outdo Stanford at biology, Stanford professor Anshul Kundaje counters that OpenAI's AI—trained on centuries of academic math—only outperforms humans on certain proof types. He adds Anthropic's models, trained mostly on academically produced biology data, won't surpass all human biologists anytime soon "despite Dario's chest thumping."
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