AI #189: New Math

The big drop of this week was not a new AI model. It was instead the biggest day (so far!) in the history of mathematics, as OpenAI dropped solutions to 90 of the top 500 open math problems, along with many others, reached on an average budget of three hours of Pro-level compute per question. This was kind of a big deal and I plan to cover it tomorrow. We did see Claude Haiku 5.5, which looks promising given it is only $0.10/$0.50. My week was largely spent at The Curve. The entire conference was Chatham House, so I can’t give as many details as I would like, but I have a write-up here. I finally had a chance to post my coverage of model welfare for both Mythos/Fable 5.1 and Opus 5.5. I continue to think this is an important issue for anyone wanting to understand today’s AIs, even if you are highly confident that model welfare does not matter directly, as it has many practical implications on top of that. Jay Clayton is the new AI Czar, and is at the head of a new taskforce. Given who…