OpenAI released more than 700 mathematical manuscripts at once, and the mathematician community reacted with shock and anger

OpenAI released more than 700 manuscripts in a single batch on October 6, 2026, claiming to have solved hundreds of open mathematical problems, and the mathematics blog Proofs and Prompts subsequently collected responses from over 100 researchers. Some papers have already been retracted, and others have been criticized for being difficult to read, but some experts also said the results were impressive. Fields Medalist Peter Scholze called for patience and warned that such systems could find ways to break widely used encryption methods; Terence Tao said AI-generated proofs introduced valuable new ideas but expressed frustration over the lack of people who could discuss and teach this work. Alvaro Lozano-Robledo called it possibly the most important day in the history of mathematics, while noting that OpenAI's targeting of the Riemann Hypothesis only yielded a weaker variant. Ben Green said some results astonished him, saying they addressed about three-quarters of the research goals in the European funding he received in June of that year.