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On October 30, 2026, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said on the "Cheeky Pint" podcast that after the new model cracked math problems, he felt sorrow and melancholy amid his excitement. On the same day, responding on the podcast to doubts from the mathematics community, he said the public's right to understand how the universe works outweighs the impact that releasing the results has on the mathematics community, and that the company needs to improve its communication but will not stop releasing results; he also estimated that OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math problems, of which solving the Navier-Stokes equations cost about $10 million. A Yi AI Notes commented the same day that it tends to believe Altman's sorrow is genuine. On November 1, more than 1,000 mathematicians founded the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM), pledging not to use AI in their research and calling on peers to stop cooperating with OpenAI, criticizing OpenAI's one-time release of 722 mathematics papers as a display of power rather than scientific rigor.
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Over a Thousand Mathematicians Form the AHM Association to Boycott OpenAI and AI Research
More than 1,000 mathematicians have formed the Association for Human Mathematics (AHM), pledging not to use AI in their research and calling on peers to stop collaborating with OpenAI. The association criticized OpenAI for releasing 722 papers proving or disproving mathematical problems all at once earlier this month, arguing that this was a display of power rather than scientific rigor, and noted that mathematical progress depends on human expertise formed through writing and thinking. Those who join must pledge not to publish AI-generated mathematical texts and not to use AI models for research; members include scholars from institutions such as MIT, Caltech, and the Technical University of Munich.
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Altman Responds to AI's Impact on the Mathematics Community: Understands Mathematicians' Situation, but OpenAI Will Not Stop Research
Speaking on the "Cheeky Pint" podcast, Altman said he understands the situation mathematicians face amid the flood of AI research results, but OpenAI still needs to continue publishing valuable scientific discoveries, and he acknowledged that the way it previously released mathematics results could be improved. He estimated that OpenAI has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in research on mathematics problems, of which the work related to solving the NS equations cost about $10 million, and the cost of similar work in the future may drop to about one percent of the current level. OpenAI has published multiple AI mathematics results this year; in October it announced three advances in mathematics, computer science, and theoretical physics, among which the Yang-Mills theory results have not yet had complete materials made public, prompting researchers to question independent verification.
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Altman Responds to Math Community Doubts: OpenAI's Math Results Releases Will Not Stop
Sam Altman said on the Cheeky Pint podcast that the public's right to understand how the universe works outweighs the impact of OpenAI's result releases on the math community, and that the company needs to improve its communication but will not stop releasing. He admitted that OpenAI's investment in math problems once got out of control, and said the company has hundreds of math discoveries beyond its published results that remain undisclosed; he also estimated that OpenAI has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on math problems, of which the Navier-Stokes solution cost about $10 million. The math community, meanwhile, criticized OpenAI's releases for lacking attribution, context, and verification, and also expressed dissatisfaction that details of results such as the Yang-Mills theory have not been disclosed.
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Altman on the Sorrow After ChatGPT Conquers Math Problems
Ayi AI Notes believes that after ChatGPT's new model conquered research problems tackled by top mathematicians such as Terence Tao, Deng Yu, Peter Scholze, and Wang Hong, OpenAI CEO Altman was so excited he lost sleep for two nights, yet at dawn he fell into sorrow, because the era in which humans rely on their flesh-and-blood brains to explore truth is coming to an end. The author is inclined to believe Altman's sorrow is genuine: admitting the sense of losing control as an era ends brings no benefit in terms of pure commercial interest, and this resembles the tremor John Collison mentioned when the last batch of Irish farmers who worked with horses were erased by industrialization.
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Altman Talks About OpenAI's New Model Cracking Math Problems After Drinking
OpenAI CEO Altman revealed in an interview after drinking that ChatGPT's new model, over an internal "Hold My Beer" weekend, successively cracked multiple unsolved interdisciplinary problems, with the proof related to the Navier-Stokes equations alone consuming $10 million in compute. He said that the actual scientific research findings produced far exceed the several hundred results publicly disclosed, and admitted that the excitement was accompanied by more sadness and melancholy, feeling that "something is coming to an end."
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