OpenAI announces three major scientific discoveries and a new way of collaborating with academia

OpenAI announced three major discoveries in mathematics, computer science, and physics, this time with external experts serving as "shepherds" to guide verification, less than a month after it mass-released hundreds of papers claiming to solve mathematical problems. The mathematics result is a proof of local smoothing for the Euclidean wave equation, which OpenAI says simultaneously resolves the Kakeya conjecture and the Stein restriction conjecture in all dimensions, and the model output has been published directly on GitHub; the computer science paper claims to refute the exponential time hypothesis (ETH) with a subexponential-time algorithm, and an independent working group consisting of Russell Impagliazzo, Ramamohan Paturi, and Ryan Williams will verify and explain the proof; the physics result has not been published in full, and OpenAI says it is a proof of the existence of four-dimensional quantum field theories including QCD, with David Gross to lead an expert panel to guide it.