Announcing Three Major
Greg Brockman is effectively announcing OpenAI's entry into AI-driven science — a direct challenge to DeepMind, which built its reputation on exactly this playbook with AlphaFold, AlphaProof and AlphaEvolve. The claimed breadth across math, CS and physics is striking, and harmonic analysis plus complexity theory sit in territory DeepMind's systems have recently touched.… more
The big open question is how much of each discovery is genuinely AI-led versus human researchers using AI as an instrument — no details are given, so healthy skepticism is warranted until the papers and independent verification appear. Strategically, though, the signal is unambiguous: OpenAI sees automated scientific discovery as the next frontier beyond coding and chatbots. If the results hold up, the 'AI for science' race just got serious; if they're inflated, it's marketing. Either way, expect Google to answer quickly.
Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! https://t.co/VkfacopR2R
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