‘Pure insanity’: Mathematicians will need years to make sense of OpenAI’s latest drop

What happened

Those were among the descriptions more than three dozen mathematicians reached for in conversations with The Verge as they tried to make sense of the flood of mathematical results OpenAI abruptly dropped on the field this week. Amid the awe, excitement, and uncertainty over the sheer scale of the deluge was a deep-seated anxiety over what it all means - and what comes next. OpenAI is an artificial intelligence company based in San Francisco, founded in 2015.