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

ChatGPT 5.5 Pro solved an open number theory problem in under an hour, improving an exponential bound to a polynomial one, with a Fields Medalist calling the key idea completely original.

May 9 · 16:32:14 · primary fetch2 sourcesupdated May 9 · 16:32:14

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.

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the-decoder.comFields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered "PhD-level" math research in under two hours with zero human helpprimary16:32:14
thesoftwarereport.comOpenAI Debuts GPT-5.5 with Advanced Agentic Reasoning and Tool Use02:00:00

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