StudioOpenAI says its models refuted the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and the people who proposed it are checking
On 26 October OpenAI said its internal models proved three results: the local smoothing conjecture in every dimension (also settling Kakeya and Stein's restriction conjecture), a disproof of the Exponential Time Hypothesis, and a rigorous proof that quantum chromodynamics exists, with pure Yang-Mills existence along the way. All three were formalized in Lean, with the maths and ETH proofs public on GitHub. None has been checked by the wider community yet; Impagliazzo and Paturi, who proposed ETH in 1999, together with Ryan Williams, say in an open letter that their involvement "should not be taken as certification of the claim". ETH being false doesn't mean P equals NP, and the Yang-Mills result claims existence only, not the mass gap, so it isn't the Millennium Prize.
The post lays out the scope and limits of the three Lean-formalized claims and notes the original proposers stress there is no certification yet, helping readers understand each claim's boundaries.
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