OpenAI says an internal model solved more than 100 long-standing math problems and forms an advisory group at the IAS

OpenAI says a new internal model has solved more than 100 long-standing problems across most areas of mathematics, in addition to its earlier Navier-Stokes claim. According to The Decoder, training on the model began on August 28, so the whole run took about a month. The company says its own mathematicians were surprised by the results. OpenAI made the claim while announcing an independent advisory group at the Institute for Advanced Study, which it is funding. The group includes Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers. It will advise OpenAI on how to share results with researchers and the public. The announcement follows growing criticism from mathematicians, some of whom warn that AI-generated solutions could undermine conceptual understanding of mathematics. OpenAI has excluded the pace of its research from the group's advisory role. The supplied report does not list the problems or say whether outside mathematicians have verified the solutions. Mathematicians will have to weigh how quickly such results arrive against the time needed to check them.