They're just flexing their engineering skills. Mass producing such a thin phone, where most of the non battery internals are housed in the camera bump can translate to meaningful products
Like wearables, glasses, etc. The fact that they're mass producing this is key
That would be a ton of problems for a small team of PhD/Grad level experts to solve (for GPQA Diamond, etc) in a short time. Remember, on EpochAl Frontier Math, these problems require hours to days worth of reasoning by humans
The author also suggested this is a new architecture that uses existing methods, like a Monte Carlo tree search that deepmind is investigating (they use this method for AlphaZero)
I don't see the point of colluding for this sort of fraud, as these methods like tree search and pruning already exist. And other labs could genuinely produce these results
Like wearables, glasses, etc. The fact that they're mass producing this is key