No. OpenAI never developed this method of reasoning through RL. If they had, they would have announced it.

Constraints drive creativity. The US imposed constraints on China and they got creative.

Did you read the paper? What do you think based on the methodology and details in the paper?

btw, I think this is a net major benefit for the US startup ecosystem -- from new model developers to applications.

Edit: Stevvo - Thanks for your info.