I see Elon is claiming that it'll discover "new technologies and new physics" in the next year... Add it to the list of "next year" Elon claims about things. Seriously you would have to be so fucking stupid at this point to continue believing his bullshit.
Their engineers & researchers are not 3rd rate and they have enough compute and cash flow. I think the USAMO/math comp benchs means it's pretty good and SOTA but not like a step change.