A world record in math stood for 36 years. Humans chipped at it in increments of 0.0001. An AI just beat it by 25 times every gain since 1990 combined. The record is omega, the matrix multiplication exponent. It sets the theoretical speed limit on multiplying matrices, the operation underneath basically everything a computer does. Every ChatGPT answer, every video game frame, every physics simulation comes down to matrix multiplies. In 1969 Strassen got the exponent down to 2.81. Coppersmith…

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We’re releasing a broad range of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. We’ve been consulting with the independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence at the Institute for Advanced Study, and we have drawn on their advice and public recommendations to inform how we release these results. https://github.com/openai/math