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On October 30, 2026, OpenAI CEO Altman revealed in an interview that ChatGPT's new model, over an internal "Hold My Beer" weekend, successively cracked multiple unsolved interdisciplinary problems, with the proof related to the Navier-Stokes equations alone consuming $10 million in compute. He said the actual scientific discoveries produced far outnumber the several hundred results publicly disclosed, and admitted that the excitement was followed by more sorrow and melancholy, with a feeling that "something is coming to an end." On the same day, Altman responded to doubts from the mathematics community on the Cheeky Pint podcast, saying that the public's right to understand how the universe works outweighs the impact that releasing the results has on the mathematics community, and that the company needs to improve its communication but will not stop publishing, while acknowledging that its investment in math problems had at one point gotten out of control. Ayi AI Notes subsequently published an article, leaning toward believing that Altman's sorrow is genuine.
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Altman Responds to Math Community Doubts: OpenAI's Math Results Releases Will Not Stop
Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that the public's right to understand how the universe works outweighs the impact of OpenAI's result releases on the math community, and that the company needs to improve its communication but will not stop releasing. He admitted that OpenAI's investment in math problems once got out of control, and said the company has hundreds of math discoveries beyond its published results that remain undisclosed; he also estimated that OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math problems, of which the Navier-Stokes solution cost about $10 million. The math community, meanwhile, criticized OpenAI's releases for lacking attribution, context, and verification, and also expressed dissatisfaction that details of results such as the Yang-Mills theory have not been disclosed.
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Altman on the Sorrow After ChatGPT Conquers Math Problems
Ayi AI Notes believes that after ChatGPT's new model conquered research problems tackled by top mathematicians such as Terence Tao, Deng Yu, Peter Scholze, and Wang Hong, OpenAI CEO Altman was so excited he lost sleep for two nights, yet at dawn he fell into sorrow, because the era in which humans rely on their flesh-and-blood brains to explore truth is coming to an end. The author is inclined to believe Altman's sorrow is genuine: admitting the sense of losing control as an era ends brings no benefit in terms of pure commercial interest, and this resembles the tremor John Collison mentioned when the last batch of Irish farmers who worked with horses were erased by industrialization.
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Altman Talks About OpenAI's New Model Cracking Math Problems After Drinking
OpenAI CEO Altman revealed in an interview after drinking that ChatGPT's new model, over an internal "Hold My Beer" weekend, successively cracked multiple unsolved interdisciplinary problems, with the proof related to the Navier-Stokes equations alone consuming $10 million in compute. He said that the actual scientific research findings produced far exceed the several hundred results publicly disclosed, and admitted that the excitement was accompanied by more sadness and melancholy, feeling that "something is coming to an end."
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