16-02-2026 15:50 via eweek.com

OpenAI Just Solved 5 of 10 ‘Impossible’ Math Problems

Remember when AI winning a math olympiad felt like a big deal?Eleven of the world’s top mathematicians (including a Fields Medalist) decided that was child’s play. So they created First Proof, a set of 10 unpublished, research-level math problems pulled straight from their own work, and gave AI one week to solve them.The catch: none of these problems had ever appeared on the internet. No training data shortcuts. No pattern matching. Just raw mathematical reasoning.OpenAI’s Chie
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