Apr 28, 2026

What happens now that AI is good at math? — the OpenAI Podcast Ep. 17

OpenAI researchers Sébastien Bubeck and Ernest Ryu discuss the dramatic and surprising progress of AI in mathematics. They cover how models went from basic arithmetic to solving Olympiad-level and even 40-year-old open research problems, what this progress means for the future of science and AGI, and the evolving role of human researchers in an era of AI-accelerated discovery.

Jul 30, 2025

OpenAI’s IMO Team on Why Models Are Finally Solving Elite-Level Math

Members of the OpenAI team, Alex Wei, Sheryl Hsu, and Noam Brown, discuss their model's historic gold-medal performance at the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). They detail their unique approach using general-purpose reinforcement learning for hard-to-verify tasks, the model's surprising self-awareness, and the vast gap that remains between solving competition problems and achieving true mathematical research breakthroughs.