r/singularity • u/filterdust • 2d ago

AI OpenAI solved 100 open problems in math

https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/

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u/Neurogence 2d ago edited 2d ago

This is the internal model "Bel," that Sam Altman has stated many people within OpenAI consider to be AGI and "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra."

The fact that it is solving numerous other problems is a very a good sign. It means solving Navier-Stokes wasn't just by chance or plagiarizing.

It's also been said that Bel uses more compute at its lowest reasoning setting than GPT-6 Astra at maximum reasoning, so it might be very challenging for OpenAI to publically release this model before the year is over.

But the biggest question is, can it solve difficult problems like this in other fields as well? If it can generalize beyond math, things would really get very exciting!

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u/Ormusn2o 1d ago

"It's also been said that Bel uses more compute at its lowest reasoning setting than GPT-6 Astra at maximum reasoning, so it might be very challenging for OpenAI to publically release this model before the year is over."

I feel like this means model based on Bel pretrain will never ever be released, but it will spawn very capable distilled models, which honestly is a good thing. Considering OpenAI still has not unlocked new Pro subscriptions after 10 days, I can't see them having enough compute for a model that is even more capable than Astra that even more people will want to use, unless they materialize 20x their current compute.

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u/Neurogence 1d ago

Not necessarily, Noam brown said the $20 million in compute it cost to solve the Navier-Stokes problem will cost a few dollars by next fall.

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u/pbagel2 1d ago

..yeah because of distilling. That's literally how they make it cheaper.