AnalysisScienceOctober 14, 2026

MIT study: AI theory-solving jumped from 2% to 35% in two years

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MIT researchers tested OpenAI's o1, o3, GPT-5, GPT-5.1, GPT-5.4 and GPT-5.5 on theoretical problems from papers published after the models' training cutoffs, with internet access blocked. Accuracy rose from about 2% in mid-2024 to about 35% by mid-2026 across probability, statistics theory, economic theory, high-energy theory, gravitation and cosmology, and quantum physics.

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