The beautiful mathematics behind OpenAI's sphere packing result
brandonb
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August 17, 2026
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brandonb
(OP) The first of ten problems OpenAI solved was an improvement to the Cohn-Elkies bound. I briefly worked with Henry Cohn on sphere packing in undergrad. This topic is actually surprisingly accessible to the amateur mathematician so I thought I'd write up a primer and accessible description of the actual result.