Unverified posts on X say OpenAI's AI models are solving mathematical problems that would take human researchers years to complete, according to a 10 October 2026 post by @theinformation.
The post read: "OpenAI's AI models are solving math problems that could take humans years, thanks to what one mathematician calls brute force and stamina." It linked to further coverage and had 12 likes from an account with about 1.59 million followers. No named mathematician, problem domain, or model version appeared in the post, and the linked article has not been independently retrieved.
The claim builds on earlier Automatica coverage. Automatica reported on 10 October 2026 that OpenAI published 719 machine-generated mathematical results, drawing alarm from mathematicians who told The Verge the field would need years to digest the work. A subsequent Automatica report flagged a separate unconfirmed claim of 722 manuscripts from an unreleased model.
For comparison, Automatica reported on 11 October 2026 that DeepMind's Gemini resolved five open problems from the Erdős Problems database, a development described as testing whether large language models can contribute to research-level mathematics.
What would confirm the @theinformation claim: the underlying article identifying which problems were solved, which model was used, under what conditions, and what independent mathematicians said. What would undercut it: evidence that the characterization reflects benchmark performance rather than genuinely novel, unverified work. OpenAI has not been quoted responding to this specific framing.