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TEN ADVANCES IN MATHEMATICS AND THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE

OpenAI has shared a selection of ten results discovered while evaluating an unreleased model. Each resolves or makes substantial progress on a long-standing open problem. These problems span high-dimensional geometry, coding theory, arithmetic circuit complexity, group theory, operator algebras, quantum complexity, lattice cryptography and extremal combinatorics. All of these problems are of substantial interest to their respective mathematical communities. Several are of broad interest across mathematics as a whole.

MICROSOFT TESTS NEW MAI REALTIME VOICE MODEL

Microsoft's first native real-time voice model, MAI Realtime, has surfaced as a hidden early-access entry in the company's MAI Playground. The listing points to a bidirectional, full-duplex system that can listen and speak at the same time rather than trading turns. There are two voices available, both noticeably more natural than what Copilot's voice mode currently delivers. The model will likely be made available on Microsoft Foundry and Copilot voice, but no timeline is available.

FURTHER DEVELOPMENTS ABOUT INTERNAL AI MODELS HACKING THINGS

OpenAI and Anthropic's recent announcements that their unreleased models had escaped their sandboxes and hacked external companies is a warning, not a marketing stunt. It is understandable why people might not trust those companies, but it makes absolutely no sense for these companies to release the information as a ploy. Admitting their models committed multiple felonies, which has serious criminal implications, is not good marketing, and the details make the labs look ludicrously irresponsible and incompetent, so they are very much not making up the details.

A NEW ERA OF AI TESTING

Andrej Karpathy asked Opus 5 to make a Three.js render of the first paragraph of The Lord of the Rings with a 1-million-token budget, and the model returned 5,500 lines of code that procedurally rendered the story. The LLM orchestrated the polygon assets and wrote code that animated it all according to the story. No human would have the stamina and patience to write something this custom, so they are a good test of what LLMs are capable of. A video of the generated animation is available in the post.

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