GPT-6 Astra improved a decades-old sphere-packing bound, a16z says
a16z contrasts Astra’s claimed original math results with an earlier GPT-5 exercise that uncovered published solutions to problems still thought to be open.
a16z contrasts Astra’s claimed original math results with an earlier GPT-5 exercise that uncovered published solutions to problems still thought to be open.
a16z says GPT-6 Astra improved a bound on packing spheres in high-dimensional spaces that had stood since the 1970s. According to a16z, OpenAI’s Mehtaab Sawhney had spent six months on the same problem in graduate school with “absolutely zero progress.” The account distinguishes that claimed advance from finding existing answers. a16z says Sawhney gave GPT-5 an Erdős problem still listed as open; five minutes later, it surfaced a paper that had solved it. That exercise eventually uncovered published solutions to 10 more problems thought to be open.
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a16z contrasts Astra’s claimed original math results with an earlier GPT-5 exercise that uncovered published solutions to problems still thought to be open.
a16z says GPT-6 Astra improved a bound on packing spheres in high-dimensional spaces that had stood since the 1970s. According to a16z, OpenAI’s Mehtaab Sawhney had spent six months on the same problem in graduate school with “absolutely zero progress.” The account distinguishes that claimed advance from finding existing answers. a16z says Sawhney gave GPT-5 an Erdős problem still listed as open; five minutes later, it surfaced a paper that had solved it. That exercise eventually uncovered published solutions to 10 more problems thought to be open.
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