A University of Pennsylvania statistics professor utilized OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Sol Pro to solve a 30-year-old statistical conjecture related to the Benjamini-Hochberg method. The AI model achieved this feat in approximately 90 minutes, a task that proved insurmountable for its predecessor, GPT-5.5, even after 20 hours of computation. This development raises questions about AI's capacity for generating novel knowledge versus merely recombining existing information. AI
IMPACT Demonstrates advanced reasoning capabilities in AI, potentially accelerating scientific discovery and posing new questions about AI's role in generating novel knowledge.
RANK_REASON Frontier-lab model release with system card. [lever_c_demoted from frontier_release: ic=1 ai=1.0]
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