GPT-5.2 and the Gluon Amplitude Result: What the AI Actually Did in Theoretical Physics
In February 2026, OpenAI and physicists from IAS, Harvard, Cambridge and Vanderbilt published a preprint showing single-minus gluon tree amplitudes can be nonzero, with GPT-5.2 Pro spotting the general formula. What was found, what the AI did and didn't do, and why the caveats matter.
Feb 16
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