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# Greg Brockman announces OpenAI's three discoveries (Kakeya/local smoothing, ETH false, 4D QFT)

Greg Brockman (@gdb), X, 2026-10-26. Importance: historic (5 of 5).
Source: https://x.com/gdb/status/2114837059462627533

## Why it matters

OpenAI president's launch post for the 26 Oct science claims; ~1.22M views on 27 Oct.

## Summary

Posted 21:50 UTC on 26 Oct, linking OpenAI's blog post. About 1.22M views and 9.7k likes on 27 Oct (fxtwitter).

## Archived text

> Announcing three major scientific discoveries, one each in mathematics (harmonic analysis), computer science (complexity theory), and physics (quantum field theory).
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> AI starting to help us improve our understanding of the universe! https://openai.com/index/building-scientific-understanding-with-academic-communities/


## Cited in

- 2026-10-26: [OpenAI claims ETH is false](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-26-openai-eth-false-subexponential-sat-claim/)
- 2026-10-26: [OpenAI claims local smoothing and Kakeya in all dimensions](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-26-openai-local-smoothing-kakeya-all-dimensions-claim/)
- 2026-10-26: [OpenAI claims 4D Yang–Mills and QCD existence](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-26-openai-yang-mills-qcd-existence-claim/)