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OpenAI Math Breakthroughs, SpaceX’s $40B Nvidia Deal, Quant Firms Hiring Idea Guys | Diet TBPN

AI's math/code capabilities are advancing via verifiable-reward training even as SpaceX taps credit markets to fund $40B of Nvidia chips.

  • OpenAI math breakthrough: A reported 722-manuscript result pushes AI math-solving ability beyond any human performance in history, per hosts, though scope/definition of "solved problems" is debated.
  • Chollet's jagged-frontier theory: Creator of ARC-AGI François Chollet argues math and code can be pushed arbitrarily far via RLVR (reinforcement learning with verifiable rewards), while other domains plateau on scarce human data.

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