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Will DePue: LLM-ranked list says 81% of top recent discoveries were released today

Will DePue @willdepue · x · 2026-10-06 · ★★ · archived

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High-reach post (~282k views) by a former OpenAI researcher; Litt disputed the list.

Summary

Posted 22:52 UTC. DePue (ex-OpenAI: Sora, post-training) asked "GPT 6 Pro and Fable 5.1" to rank all discoveries of the last three years and says "81% of them have been released today". ~282k views. Kevin Weil quoted it ("What an incredible release today", https://x.com/kevinweil/status/2107618767144710399). Daniel Litt: the list "is pretty different from what you’d get from a mathematician" (https://x.com/littmath/status/2107660138773389502). An LLM ranking, not an expert one.

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i asked GPT 6 Pro and Fable 5.1 to rank all discoveries in the last three years

🔵 for Human discovered 🔴 for AI discovered (before October 6th) 🟢 for AI discovered from OpenAI/math repo

81% of them have been released today. wtf https://t.co/wU4Lsf18XH

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