OpenAI announces three science discoveries using external academic advisers

OpenAI announced three major discoveries across mathematics, computer science, and physics on October 26, 2026, according to the Verge. The announcement follows the company releasing hundreds of manuscripts containing proposed solutions to long-standing mathematics questions less than a month earlier. [1]

The Verge reported that OpenAI altered its approach for these recent findings by involving external experts whom the company described as shepherds. These advisers guided the results in computer science and physics. [1]

For the mathematics findings, external advisers recommended that OpenAI release the artificial intelligence output publicly, according to the Verge. This allows independent researchers to work through their own explanations of the results. [1]

According to the Verge, one of the achievements includes establishing local smoothing for the Euclidean wave equation. The proof relies on an auxiliary partial differential equation to establish the result. [1]