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Fields Medalist: ChatGPT 5.5 Pro solved PhD-level math in hours

May 9 · · primary fetch2 sourcescluster 6f27cdebupdated May 9 ·

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers had ChatGPT 5.5 Pro tackle open problems in number theory. The model improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one in under an hour. An MIT researcher involved calls the key idea "completely original." Gowers' takeaway: the bar for mathematical contributions is now proving something LLMs can't.

The article Fields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered "PhD-level" math research in under two hours with zero human help appeared first on The Decoder.

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  1. the-decoder.comFields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered "PhD-level" math research in under two hours with zero human helpprimary
  2. thesoftwarereport.comOpenAI Debuts GPT-5.5 with Advanced Agentic Reasoning and Tool Use

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