OpenAI CEO Sam Altman revealed that the company has made multiple undisclosed major discoveries in mathematics. Publicly disclosing basic scientific achievements presents a dilemma: there is a need for open sharing of knowledge, while also safeguarding researchers' career development motivation. Currently, OpenAI positions its publicly released mathematics manuscripts as raw research data, inviting the external scientific research community to collaborate on revisions—supplementing arguments, improving citations, and verifying and correcting issues—so as to make them a reusable foundation for subsequent research.
