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OpenAI jumps gun on International Math Olympiad gold medal announcement

Non-math AI model reportedly solves proofs at human speeds, but early reveal roils community.

According to OpenAI, its achievement marks a departure from previous AI attempts at mathematical Olympiad problems, which relied on specialized theorem-proving systems that often exceeded human time limits. OpenAI says that the research team behind the experimental AI model, led by Alex Wei with support from Sheryl Hsu and Noam Brown, hadn't initially planned to enter the competition but decided to evaluate their work after observing promising results in testing. However, in addition to the controversy over self-grading the results, OpenAI also annoyed the IMO community because its Saturday announcement appears to have violated the embargo agreement with the International Mathematical Olympiad.

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