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“Hoisted by their own GPTards.”

This is what Meta’s Chief AI Scientist Yann Lecan said It has been told The setback comes after OpenAI researchers trumpeted GPT-5’s reported math successes.

Demis Hassabis, CEO of Google DeepMind couple“It’s shameful.”

decoder reports In a since-deleted tweet, OpenAI VP Kevin Weil announced that “GPT-5 found solutions to 10 (!) previously unsolved Erdös problems and made progress on 11 others.” (“Erdő’s problems” are famous conjecture Presented by mathematician Paul Erdős.)

However, mathematician Thomas Bloom, who maintains Erdos Problems websiteWeil’s post said “A dramatic misrepresentation” – While these problems were indeed listed as “open” on Bloom’s website, he said this only meant, “I am personally unaware of a paper that solves it.”

In other words, it is not correct to claim that GPT-5 was able to solve previously unsolved problems. Instead, Bloom wrote, “GPT-5 found references that resolved these problems of which I was personally unaware.”

Sebastian Bubek, an OpenAI researcher who was also promoting the achievements of GPT-5 at the time accepted that “only solutions were found in literature,” but he suggested that this remained a real achievement: “I know how difficult it is to search in literature.”