OpenAI reports AI proofs spanning Kakeya, the Exponential Time Hypothesis and Yang–Mills existence
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Three fields. Three reported breakthroughs. A lot for researchers to unpack. On October 26, OpenAI announced AI-produced results covering: • Local smoothing in all dimensions, which it says also resolves the Kakeya and Stein restriction conjectures. • A refutation of the Exponential Time Hypothesis…
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- 2026-10-27 13:21 · r/singularity
Understanding the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and OpenAI's claim that it is false - 2026-10-27 08:05 · r/singularity
Internal Claude research model also independently refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis on October 16, with 14M output tokens and no human input. - 2026-10-27 05:10 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI says its models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and the people who proposed it are checking - 2026-10-26 23:00 · r/OpenAI
OpenAI reports AI proofs spanning Kakeya, the Exponential Time Hypothesis and Yang–Mills existence