TLDR Dev · MISCELLANEOUS
LEADING OPENAI RESEARCHER ANNOUNCED A GPT-5 MATH BREAKTHROUGH THAT NEVER HAPPENED
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OpenAI researchers initially claimed a major math breakthrough by GPT-5, suggesting it had solved previously unsolved Erdős problems. However, mathematician Thomas Bloom clarified that the problems were not truly unsolved, and DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis criticized the announcement as misleading. The researchers later retracted their claims, admitting their mistake and deleting the original tweets.