Equation 2 · OpenAI and Claude on Formal Reasoning: What the Benchmarks Show, and Where They Mislead
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Consider what the o1 numbers alone expose about how these gains are produced. If a single attempt at a problem succeeds with probability p , and k attempts were independent, the probability that at least one succeeds is
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- [2] GPT-5 System Card ↗
- [18] GPT-5 Leads in Key Math Reasoning Benchmarks ↗
- [1] OpenAI o1 System Card ↗
- [4] Introducing Claude 4 ↗
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