Winning gold medals in a bunch of competitions like IMO.

Of course I can't "prove" it, just like you can't "prove" yours, but I am involved in the field and no-one I know thinks we're even close to a "dead end". On the contrary, people are more bullish than ever.

I don't have any inside knowledge of OpenAI's product release priorities, but your narrative about dead ends and desperate scrambles to push something out the door, tricking investors to keep the party going - this has nothing to do with reality as far as I can tell.