Note, in posts like the following, the author indicates they are able to get free subscriptions from OpenAI
As an aside, there's this idea in math that when you create a new field you shouldn't solve all the easy problems - you need to entice other people to learn about the field!
I expect there's some element of that here. It's much better for OpenAI and Anthropic if their users are the ones discovering and writing up the results of the AI solving hard math. Look at the high school and college age students who have become ai power users and potentially learned how to use git to contribute ai generated solutions
(Related: I believe Terry has also gotten all of the subscriptions gifted to him)
Depends. The headline 'some rando solved a famous problem with a consumer grade subscription' might be a really good way to sell these subscriptions.
"Some already famous guy with special access solved a problem" might not be as inspiring.