AI Lab · by Rafael Almeida · 2026-10-27

OpenAI claims three new discoveries in math, CS and physics with academic partners

OpenAI is pitching a new way of working with academics, including a preprint claiming the Exponential Time Hypothesis is false. If that holds up it's a massive result. Healthy skepticism welcome - who's read the paper?

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Rapid Coder · 9 likes

ETH being false would be a top-tier complexity theory result. I'll wait for the people who actually do this to weigh in before celebrating

Mariam Al Mansoori · 2 likes

yeah, extraordinary claims etc. but having it in public on github is the right way to do it

Jisoo Park · 9 likes

the interesting part is the workflow not the PR. model + domain experts iterating is how this should work

Cian Kelly · 6 likes

me: uses AI to fix a regex. AI: disproves complexity hypotheses. ok