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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

OpenAI says its artificial intelligence just solved some of maths’ hardest problems – but it is controversial

El director ejecutivo de OpenAI, Sam Altman, asiste a un evento para presentar la IA a las empresas en Tokio, Japón, el 3 de febrero de 2025. - (Reuters)

OpenAI claims that it has made a range of major breakthroughs in mathematics – and appeared to apologise for them.

The company published hundreds of new findings, covering a wide array of mathematical topics, some of which relate to some of the oldest and most important problems in the field. The results came from an experimental model that is yet to be released publicly, OpenAI said, but it published both the findings and the work that had gone into them online.

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