[andy12_]

> Was the question asked by a mathematician?

As per the report, the prompt used to solve the problem is AI-written and the solution was initially graded by an AI grading pipeline. They don't say this explicitly, but it seems like OpenAI has an automatic pipeline where they prompt models for solutions to famous math problems (which wouldn't be unexpected given how flashy a solution to a famous math problem looks)

> Was the paper right from a get-go or was there someone who pointed out mistakes?

Also as per the report, the output of the model isn't really a "paper"; it's a very terse 2 page solution which is apparently correct. The paper was later written based on this solution to make it more presentable.

> How much attempts were made before solution was found?

Given that this appears to be from an automated pipeline, I would say that it had many attempts. But either way, the blogpost says that with enough test-time compute, the model finds this same solution 50% of the time.

[1] https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/74c24085-19b0-4534-9c90-465b8e29a...