OpenAI says its models solved three major science problems
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OpenAI released AI-generated results on the Kakeya conjecture, a refutation of the 1999 Exponential Time Hypothesis, and a physics finding it has not yet published. Each discipline got a different release strategy, with external "shepherds" deciding how to share the work.
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