How a reasoning model cracked an 80-year-old math problem — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 20

Documents a reasoning model producing a result mathematicians consider publishable, a data point on how far research-grade reasoning has moved.

• reasoning model — A model trained to think — generating extended internal reasoning before answering — trading time and tokens for accuracy on hard problems.

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