OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math
In Brief Posted: 11:56 AM PDT · October 19, 2025 Image Credits:Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto / Getty Images Anthony Ha OpenAI’s ‘embarrassing’ math “Hoisted by their own GPTards.” That’s how Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann LeCun described the blowback after OpenAI researchers did a victory lap over GPT-5’s supposed math breakthroughs. Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis added, “this is embarrassing.” The Decoder reports that in a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil declared that “GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdős problems and made progress on 11 others.” (“Erdős problems” are famous conjectures posed by mathematician Paul Erdős.) However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains the Erdos Problems website,…
