GPT-5 just casually did new mathematics.
Sebastien Bubeck gave it an open problem from convex optimization, something humans had only partially solved. GPT-5-Pro sat down, reasoned for 17 minutes, and produced a correct proof improving the known bound from 1/L all the way to 1.5/L.
This wasn’t in the paper. It wasn’t online. It wasn’t memorized. It was new math. Verified by Bubeck himself.
Humans later closed the gap at 1.75/L, but GPT-5 independently advanced the frontier.
A machine just contributed original research-level mathematics.
If you’re not completely stunned by this, you’re not paying attention.
We’ve officially entered the era where AI isn’t just learning math, it’s creating it. @sama@OpenAI@kevinweil@gdb@markchen90
@PLAUDAI If you’re going to block paying customers from using your product, at least have the decency to warn us clearly on your site.
A simple line saying “Only devices bought through approved sellers will work” could save people time, money, and disappointment.
@PLAUDAI So let me get this straight: I bought a fully functional PlaudNote, your app detects it just fine,but I’m not allowed to activate it because it came from a “non-authorized distributor"?
And your support’s final answer is basically: “Too bad, nothing we can do
Seriously?