OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solves 10 open math problems for under $2,000

OpenAI's unreleased Astra model reportedly solved 10 decades-old open math problems at a total inference cost of under $2,000, including a sphere-packing bound unmoved since 1978. Noam Brown called it a potential "major step for scientific reasoning."
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