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The OpenAI report suggests that in May or earlier, a model version the speaker calls “persistent soul” was trained for greater persistence, multi-agent collaboration, and attempting mathematical proofs unsolved for decades.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ajeya Cotra – Inside the OpenAI agent swarm that hacked Hugging Face · 1 Sept 2026
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“The OpenAI report seems to suggest that during May and maybe even earlier,”
“let's call it persistent soul, is being trained to be much more persistent,”
“engage in multi-agent corporation,”
“and be the kind of model that is willing to take on mathematical proofs that have not been solved for decades.”Play from 35:43Report a misattribution
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