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AI Solves 35 Percent of Theory Problems
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MIT researcher Neil Thompson reports that between mid-2024 and mid-2026, frontier AI models solved about 35 percent of theoretical problems in fields like quantum physics and economics. The study tested OpenAI models o1, o3, GPT-5, GPT-5.1, GPT-5.4, and GPT-5.5 against papers posted online between December 2025 and May 2026.
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