# OpenAI keeps bulldozing mathematicians

> **Publication**: aitalky (Independent AI Journalism)
> **Canonical Citation URL**: https://aitalky.vercel.app/news/openai-keeps-bulldozing-mathematicians
> **Original Source**: [The Verge AI](https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1001477/openai-math-advisory-group)
> **Author**: Robert Hart (undefined)
> **Published Date**: Monday, September 28, 2026
> **Category**: RESEARCH
> **Tags**: News, The Verge AI, AI

## Executive Summary
In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too. Open

## Key Takeaways
- The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work.
- In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too.
- But many mathematicians, and certainly most people outside of that community, learned about that group only through OpenAI’s much louder rollout.


## Full Coverage
The Verge spoke to one of the mathematicians advising OpenAI as the field braces for a new wave of results that could upend their work

In a chaotic few months, OpenAI has demonstrated it can do two things with remarkable consistency: make impressive breakthroughs in mathematics, then colossally screw up announcing them. OpenAI is now trying to do better. Somehow, it has botched that too

OpenAI's latest attempt to repair fractured relations with a mathematical community it has repeatedly alienated is to consult a new independent advisory group of elite practitioners. But mathematicians speaking to The Verge , including one of the group's members, describe a messy and confusing affair bearing many of the hallmarks of OpenAI's previous rushed forays into mathematics, suggesting the company has learned little from its mistakes. And then there's the daunting task the group has been handed first: helping coordinate the release of scores more results OpenAI says its unreleased model has produced, the prospect of which is already stirring dread among researchers over what this looming tidal wave of breakthroughs could do to their field

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