OpenAI 内部数学模型 Aeon 被曝单次提示解出多数近期数学成果
有人爆料 OpenAI 秘密模型 Aeon，一道题平均想 3 小时就啃下不少数学难题，训练曲线还没到头，看着挺吓人。
据 Andrew Curran 在 X 上爆料，OpenAI 一个尚未公布的内部模型（暂称 Aeon）以单个提示、无中断的方式一次性得出近期多数数学研究成果，方式不同于 Navier–Stokes 所用的 swarm 路线。OpenAI 给该模型布置了 4000 道题目，每个结果平均消耗约 3 小时思考时间。Aeon 在 8 月底之前还不存在，目前仍在训练中，一个月前的训练曲线在对数坐标上未见收益衰减。作者还称 Anthropic 与 OpenAI 内部已在 9 月跨过模型自我改进创造力门槛，相关迹象体现在 Opus 5.5 上。
Most of the recent math results were not reached by a swarm, the way Navier–Stokes was. I think that part got lost in the excitement around the release. OpenAI's unnamed internal model, which I'm going to call Aeon, reached most of them in one shot, from a single prompt, with no interruptions. This model did not even exist before the end of August, and it is still training. Notice how the returns are not dropping off? That chart is from a month ago. It is a log scale. What does Aeon look like now?
On average, each result used three hours of thinking. Aeon was given 4000 problems to work on by OpenAI. How many more have been solved in the last three days? That number is not zero.
It's like hearing notes in a song that is slowly rising. I don't think Pacing the Frontier was just about Hugging Face or hacking. They've seen how close we are to closing the loop, and as the hour draws near, their resolve begins to quaver. The last piece was model creativity, and I think that threshold was crossed internally by Anthropic and OpenAI in September. You see it in Opus 5.5, which gets it from Fable 5.5. You see it in the math results from Aeon.
All that was needed to start the event was the ability for models to think of novel ways to improve themselves. That was the last piece. This is directly analogous to the ability to think of strange, alien ways to solve math problems: solutions so inhuman that they are difficult to express in existing human terms, so the proof winds up incomprehensible. I think these same kinds of alien solutions are now being applied to model improvements internally. That's what all this recent consternation is really about. They see the invisible frontier. And they see what is about to happen.
