Fields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered “PhD-level” math research in under two hours with zero human help

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By AI Maestro May 10, 2026 1 min read
Fields Medalist says ChatGPT 5.5 Pro delivered “PhD-level” math research in under two hours with zero human help

Fields Medalist Timothy Gowers had ChatGPT 5.5 Pro tackle open problems in number theory. The model improved an exponential bound to a polynomial one in under an hour. An MIT researcher involved calls the key idea “completely original.” Gowers’ takeaway: the bar for mathematical contributions is now proving something LLMs can’t.

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