OpenAI wanted to see if its agents could solve a long unsettled math problem. After gobbling billions of tokens, it found a solution.

An NYU math professor claims the AI behemoth rushed to solve the problem after discovering his progress.

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, a claim that also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit.

A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997

As companies entrust AI systems with increasingly valuable intellectual property, the policies governing model training, retention and access become part of the technical architecture, not simply language in a privacy statement.

UCLA professor and mathematician Terence Tao has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.