What Noam Brown thinks about mathematics

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Research scientist at OpenAI, who built the poker AIs Libratus and Pluribus and helped pioneer test-time compute and reasoning in language models.

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1. 26 Jun 2026

   Our readingAn outsider could have disproved the Erdős unit-distance conjecture with a public model, because nobody had tried spending $100,000 of compute on one question.

   Their wordsUm but it would be possible and it would have been possible for somebody to disprove the erdos unit distance conjecture before we did using a general purpose model. And nobody had explored sufficiently what happens if I put $100,000 worth of compute into 5.5 what could it do?

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