GPT-5.6 Sol Pro solves open problem in convex optimization
Cu3PO42
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July 16, 2026
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Discussion Highlights (2 comments)
eh_why_not
Discussion on Reddit: https://old.reddit.com/r/math/comments/1uxj3cy/after_openais... Of note: the author had AI help synthesizing the actual 10-page prompt that resulted in the proof! A powerful tool when you know what you're doing. > Did you have first an AI help designing the prompt? >> yes, I did! I basically had 5.6 Sol synthesize existing closely related work and their approaches, the past ideas I had, with OpenAI's prompt that had a lot of the presumably important mechanisms for how exactly the agent should act. Especially from the "results that do not count" section onwards is a lot of input from Sol.
ofjcihen
For anyone dooming I’ll just leave you with this bit. It still takes quite a bit of knowledge to get it going: >After the release of GPT Sol 5.6, I used a very long prompt, 10 pages long in my paper