30 October 2026
OpenAI's CEO defends its math results and says more discoveries are coming
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- Sam Altman, head of OpenAI (the company behind ChatGPT), says the public deserves its AI-generated math discoveries despite criticism from mathematicians.
- Altman said on a podcast that OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math, including about $10 million on a Navier-Stokes problem, a famous unsolved question.
- He confirmed the company has more mathematical proofs than it has released so far, while admitting its communication of results needs to improve.
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