Dr. Know-it-all drops a massive breakdown of a historic milestone. On exactly the same day, OpenAI and Anthropic simultaneously announced that their AI systems disproved the Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH), a bedrock computational complexity assumption held for 25 years.
OpenAI also dropped a mathematically rigorous existence proof for four-dimensional Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) and solved a core chunk of the Quantum Yang-Mills theory, a Millennium Prize problem. We are officially stepping out of pure math and entering a new golden age of theoretical physics.