‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

October 9, 2026 · 7:09 pm 1 sources

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• ‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop
  The Verge · October 9, 2026 19:09
  "Staggering." "Overwhelming." "Unprecedented." "Surreal." "Pure insanity." Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this…