From a business perspective, I actually think this announcement isn’t necessarily good news for OpenAI. There are few markets smaller and less lucrative than professional academic mathematics. The fact that this is the area where OpenAI is dedicating some of their top technical talent (like Noam Brown) underscores the degree to which, like the drunk searching for their keys under the streetlight, their most impressive results are limited to the smaller number of areas that are well-suited to LLMs (i.e., math + computer coding).