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New Fields medalist, Jacob Tsimerman, leaving research math to work at OpenAI

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New Fields medalist, Jacob Tsimerman, leaving research math to work at OpenAI

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Post by bryan0 » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 1:58 PM UTC

New Fields medalist, Jacob Tsimerman, leaving research math to work at OpenAI
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Post by mkprc » Tue, Jul 28, 2026, 10:39 PM UTC

Jacob Tsimerman appears to be very thoughtful about AI's impact on research mathematics. The headline though serves as a bad omen for academia.

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