OpenAI to donate $5 million to help mathematicians navigate AI era
OpenAI has announced to donate $5 million to Simons Foundation, an organization dedicated to advancing the frontiers of math and basic science through grantmaking, in-house research and public engagement. To support that goal, we are contributing $5 million to a new Simons Foundation initiative to help mathematicians examine, understand, and build on results produced by AI, including the results we recently published”. The lab released an open repository containing 722 research manuscripts organised into 372 distinct problem families. Previously, OpenAI claimed to have solved a 90-year-old Millennium Prize Problem that sparked outrage across the global mathematical community.
The criticism comes days after OpenAI released a broad range of mathematical results produced by one of its internal frontier models earlier this month.
Announcing the donation on X, OpenAI said: “We want to support the mathematics community in turning progress in AI into deeper human understanding and new discoveries. The ChatGPT-maker shared a post on X (formerly Twitter) announcing the donation. The announcement comes days after Association for Human Mathematics (AHM) slammed the Sam Altman-led AI company accusing it of illegal plagiarism, copyright infringement, and trademark dilution. Last week, OpenAI published hundreds of new mathematical results produced by an internal frontier model. The documents cover a vast array of disciplines, including number theory and algebraic geometry, and claim major advances tied to three of the five remaining Millennium Prize Problems, including the legendary Riemann hypothesis.