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How a reasoning model cracked an 80-year-old math problem - Episode 20

aired Jun 04, 2026 · 41.0m
Signal
81.7/ 100
High signal
confidence 0.99
Orig60.2
Actn100.0
Dens100.0
Dpth100.0
Clty73.3
Summary

Hello, I'm Andrew Main, and welcome to the OpenAI podcast. On today's episode, we're speaking with Alexander Wei, Hongxing Wu, and Li Jiechen from the reasoning research team behind a recent math breakthrough from an OpenAI model.

Why listen

It goes beyond the title with direct discussion of like, think, model, including: On today's episode, we're speaking with Alexander Wei, Hongxing Wu, and Li Jiechen from the reasoning research team behind a recent math breakthrough from an OpenAI model.

Key takeaways
  1. 01On today's episode, we're speaking with Alexander Wei, Hongxing Wu, and Li Jiechen from the reasoning research team behind a recent math breakthrough from an OpenAI model
  2. 02Okay, this model is something that's really amazing
  3. 03You know, model can already win medals and gold medals
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