The claim appears to be false. But it was likely motivated by a real phenomenon: Feed it the right prompts, and O1 will often claim to solve various open quest

The claim appears to be false. But it was likely motivated by a real phenomenon: Feed it the right prompts, and O1 will often claim to solve various open questions in mathematics and computer science. Sometimes the suggestions are actually real and viable -- e.g. an iterative program on the Weaire–Phelan structure to find better solutions to the 3D tiling problem -- but usually there's a flaw in its reasoning somewhere. Worst case, it'll just make shit up. "Y-yeah, I discovered an algorithm that can crack crypto in real time" definitely falls into that category.