Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts ...

Google and OpenAI have solved decades-old problems — but the scientific community is beginning to discuss whether limits ...

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An OpenAI model disproved the 80-year-old Erdős unit distance conjecture, and Google DeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus solved nine more open problems days later. Together, these AI math breakthroughs mark a ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

In mid-May, OpenAI announced that an internal AI model had disproved the Erdős unit distance conjecture, a famous problem in discrete geometry that had stumped human mathematicians for the last 80 ...

OpenAI announced on May 20, 2026, that an internal general-purpose reasoning model had produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős's 1946 unit distance conjecture — a result in discrete geometry that had ...

OpenAI says a new general-purpose reasoning model has produced an original proof that disproves a long-standing conjecture in discrete geometry tied to the planar unit distance problem. The claim ...

Let's be totally honest, when you hear that AI has cracked a 80-year-old math problem, your first instinct is probably to yawn and swipe away. It sounds like a headline strictly for the coding nerds ...

OpenAI claims its new reasoning model has produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous unsolved conjecture in geometry, which was first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. If this sounds ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...

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