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Hongxing Wu

Hongxing Wu

Researcher at OpenAI working on mathematical reasoning and AI. Theoretical computer scientist who collaborated on OpenAI's work disproving an 80-year-old mathematics conjecture.

Jun 4, 2026

9:56
Right
9:56
... looking at it.
9:57
[laughs] So, like, in my heart, I don't really believe that.
10:00
Um, but later he told me it's 50%.
10:03
I was thinking, "Okay, if we extrapolate the trend, then maybe next night it will be 8- 100%." [laughs] Um, so yeah, I guess it, it's a little bit dreamlike, um, but also was, like, it feels a bit, a little bit natural that, um, that this model would do something amazing.
10:23
Later, it, it just become more and more, um, more and more real that, uh, this might actually be correct, this might actually be a big deal, the first time the model can publish something that get into, like, uh, top math journals.

23 MINS LATER

33:46
[laughs]
33:46
The disproof of the conjecture.

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