Sometimes I forget there's a whole other world out there where AI models aren't just used for basic tasks such as simple research and quick content summaries. Out in the land of bigwigs, they're instead being used to help with everything from financial analysis to scientific research. That's why their mathematical capabilities are so important—plus it's a general marker of reasoning capabilities.
Which is why mathematical benchmarks exist. Benchmarks such as FrontierMath, which its maker, Epoch AI, has just dropped and which is putting LLMs through their paces with "hundreds of original, expert-crafted mathematics problems designed to evaluate advanced reasoning capabilities in AI systems" (via Ars Technica).
