# OpenAI Commits $5 Million to Simons Foundation Math Review Program

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-10-15T21:11:18.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-15T21:11:18.000Z
Section: Business

> The contribution is part of a $15 million partnership with Anthropic and the Simons Foundation, combining funding and resources for review programs and researcher support.

OpenAI is committing $5 million to a Simons Foundation program that will fund mathematicians reviewing AI-generated work, part of a broader effort to assess and set standards for the research.

The contribution will pay for workshops, conferences and special programs to help mathematicians assess AI-produced results. The overall effort brings together $15 million in combined funding and resources from OpenAI, Anthropic and the Simons Foundation. The foundation will manage awards through an open call for proposals. The program is designed to help researchers assess AI-generated results and continue research that builds on them. OpenAI and Anthropic will also provide AI tools and computing resources to researchers supported through the foundation, including those working in basic science.

The math collection contained 722 manuscripts across 372 result families on Oct. 6. Three manuscripts were withdrawn Oct. 7 after a sign error invalidated an argument and a construction used by two related papers. The current listing has 719 manuscripts across the same 372 families. A result family can contain a main result alongside related arguments, consequences or alternative proofs, so manuscript totals do not equal the number of distinct problems solved. The manuscripts remain at different stages of verification; some do not have Lean formalizations, and unformalized results may contain issues. The withdrawals show why mathematicians still need to review individual claims.

The program follows the Oct. 6 release of an initial catalog of AI-generated math manuscripts. The latest counts leave the number of families unchanged even as the manuscript total has fallen. The foundation-led effort adds grants, meetings and computing resources for mathematicians working to evaluate AI-assisted research and develop practices for reviewing it.

In September, OpenAI announced an independent mathematics and AI advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study. The group is intended to advise on how emerging results should be reviewed and communicated, as well as academic and professional standards. Mathematicians have also raised concerns about using open problems as benchmarks for AI systems. Simons Foundation President David Spergel said, “The goal of the program is to support the mathematics community.”