Great post -- Sophie makes an important point: the results OpenAI announced with great fanfare are "normal for the current state of technology". The credit goes above all to the data -- the communal knowledge of mathematicians they relied to train their LLM
Sophie Huiberts
Guest blog by me
Oct 13, 2026 at 5:17 PM
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It’s the numbers, too, according to a new Wall Street Journal report, which echoes The Information’s claim earlier this month that CFO Sarah Friar has expressed concern about its IPO plans and CEO Sam Altman’s datacenter spending. It also says the company “missed an internal goal of reaching one billion weekly active users for ChatGPT by the end of last year,” and other revenue targets. [Link: The vibes are off at OpenAI | https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/908513/the-vibes-are-off-at-openai | The Verge]
OpenAI flags concerning new AI behavior and vows to track it more closely
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Various Reflections About What Happened With OpenAI's Internal Models
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Thomas Wolf on Twitter / X
wtf is this way to handle mathematicians work and scientific communicationTLDR: Leven and Tristan worked over several months on one of the Millenium Prize Problems with various AIs to reach final interesting results. OpenAI apparently heard about it in the last days and… https://t.co/zNozwkFcFO pic.twitter.com/XcefJ17AQe— Thomas Wolf (@Thom_Wolf) September 8, 2026
The full stack behind abundant intelligence
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