EventScienceSeptember 9, 2026

Fields Medalist Jacob Tsimerman leaves math for OpenAI

Tsimerman announced he is joining OpenAI hours after winning the Fields Medal, the same morning Quanta published Kevin Hartnett's profile of him. He told Daniel Litt he expects AI agents to outcompete humans at his kind of problem-solving within a few years.

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