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Pixel art: a big blue genie made of math symbols rises from a small glass bottle on a desk and hands down a tall stack of papers labelled 722, with a LEAN check-mark stamp on top. A much smaller developer looks up at it, scratching their head.
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The quiet math revolution (and where do we go from here)

OpenAI published 722 math manuscripts, many of them checked by the Lean proof assistant. What it says about brute force as intelligence, Terence Tao's Math 2.0, and what happens when math becomes a genie in a bottle.

Marcus Johansson Oct 13, 2026 11 min read