● ResearchOct 30, 2026 · 20:018 sources
Sam Altman sympathizes with mathematicians, but says OpenAI’s math onslaught won’t stop
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Sam Altman expressed sympathy for mathematicians but said OpenAI's math onslaught will not stop. He stated that OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions on math and has more discoveries up its sleeve.
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- SUPPORT@hesamation“for physics and cs, they form external research groups. but for MATH, they just release the raw AI output for anyone to study, no external group of collaborators.”x.com
- SUPPORT@mtslive“The math result claims to prove "local smoothing" for waves in every dimension, which would settle the Kakeya, Stein restriction, and Bochner-Riesz conjectures together”x.com
- SUPPORT@miles_brundage“Mathematicians question the “shepherding” approach (giving the results to a small group of physicists to deal with)”x.com
- SUPPORT@nxthompson“Here’s one example of how gutting OpenAI’s release of hundreds of solved math problems was for mathematicians.”x.com