OpenAI said its latest artificial intelligence model GPT-5 is accelerating research in mathematics, biology and physics, as AI groups race to produce tools for scientists in the hunt for new revenue streams.
The $500bn start-up on Thursday published a paper that showed its large language model helped a mathematician at Columbia University crack an unsolved and notoriously difficult maths equation called the Erdős number theory problem.
OpenAI said GPT-5 also identified a change in human immune cells within minutes, which scientists had spent months trying to solve. The model suggested an experiment that researchers were able to test and confirm to be correct.