OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

<figure> <img alt="An illustration of a bulldozer scooping up mathematical equations" data-caption="" data-portal-copyright="Image: The Verge, Shutterstock" data-has-syndication-rights="1" src="https://platform.theverge.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2026/09/VRG_OpenAIMAthBulldozer_Parkin.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;crop=0,0,100,100" /> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> <p class="has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph">In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. </p> <p class="wp-block-paragraph">OpenAI's latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994255/openai-millennium-prize-problem-tristan-buckmaster-competition">repeatedly</a> <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/977273/the-ai-takeover-of-mathematics-has-begun">alienated</a> is to <a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/999167/openai-elite-mathematicians-panel">consult</a> a new independent advisory group of elite practitioners. But mathematicians speaking to <em>The Verge</em>, including one of the group's members, describe a messy and confusing affair bearing many of the hallmarks of OpenAI's previous rushed forays into mathematics, suggest …</p> <p><a href="https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001477/openai-math-advisory-group">Read the full story at The Verge.</a></p>