They're burying any doubt that the models are capable of superhuman performance on intellectual tasks. Neural nets aren't calculators, and were notably poor at mathematical reasoning tasks for a long time. Now they're not, and the labs are proving that by chewing through what would ordinarily be decades of progress in a month. And the reason to go for math in particular is because there's no wiggle room. You can't just dismiss it as hallucination.

If the models can do this, they're almost certainly good at just about everything, because the reasoning and creativity required to solve these problems will translate. And even if they were only good at this stuff, that's still a tremendously valuable thing, because quantitative reasoning and analysis is the bedrock for many, many industries.

oAI is gunning for the largest IPO in history at this point, and they might actually get there.