AI findings from OpenAI

Every finding in the registry credited to OpenAI, with what each one claims and how solid the evidence is.

All findings in the registry, sortable by column.
DateFindingLabModelVerificationAutonomyField
2026-09-08 Finite-time blowup for Navier-Stokes with smooth forcing, Clay alternatives C and D OpenAI Unnamed OpenAI model described as more capable than GPT-6 Astra for the proof; GPT-6 Astra through Codex for the Lean formalization Claimed AI-led mathematics
2026-09-08 Finite-time blowup for the unforced Euler equations from smooth compactly supported data OpenAI Unnamed OpenAI model described as more capable than GPT-6 Astra for the proof; GPT-6 Astra through Codex for the Lean formalization Claimed AI-led mathematics
2026-09-05 Disproof of the Ibragimov-Iosifescu conjecture for phi-mixing sequences OpenAI / Epoch AI GPT-6 Astra (pre-release) Claimed AI-led mathematics
2026-09-03 Lean disproof of Krempa's matrix form of the Koethe conjecture OpenAI / Epoch AI GPT-6 Astra (pre-release) Formally verified Autonomous mathematics
2026-09-03 Erdos-Sos conjecture proved in Lean, in a form marginally weaker than the classical statement OpenAI / Epoch AI GPT-6 Astra (pre-release) Formally verified Autonomous mathematics
2026-09-03 Counterexample to Smale's mean value conjecture at K = 1 OpenAI / Epoch AI GPT-6 Astra (pre-release) Claimed Autonomous mathematics
2026-09-02 Prime gaps at most 186, conditional on three unproved Lean axioms OpenAI GPT-6 Astra Claimed AI-led mathematics
2026-08-01 Ten results in mathematics and theoretical computer science with Lean certificates OpenAI Astra Formally verified AI-led mathematics
2026-07-10 Cycle double cover conjecture proved for all bridgeless multigraphs OpenAI GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra Formally verified AI-led mathematics
2026-05-20 Disproof of the Erdős unit-distance conjecture OpenAI GPT-5 series reasoning model Independently checked AI-led mathematics
2026-01-13 Erdős problem #728 resolved and formalized in Lean OpenAI / Harmonic GPT-5.2 Pro + Aristotle Formally verified Autonomous mathematics
2025-11-20 Early science acceleration experiments with GPT-5 OpenAI GPT-5 Peer reviewed AI-assisted computer-science
2025-10-19 GPT-5 "solved 10 Erdős problems": it located existing solutions OpenAI GPT-5 Already known Retrieval mathematics
2025-08-01 Improved step-size bound in smooth convex optimization OpenAI GPT-5 Pro Already known AI-assisted mathematics

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