OpenAI’s Math Advances Spark a Reckoning for Academia
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If frontier models are starting to contribute meaningfully to mathematical research, the line between "tool" and "collaborator" in academia is going to move fast. For R&D leaders, the question this week is simple: where in your pipeline could you safely treat AI as a co‑author rather than just a calculator.
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