AI makes a major breakthrough in a math problem that had stumped experts for decades

For nearly 80 years, mathematicians have struggled to solve a classic geometry puzzle first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. The question posed by the legendary Hungarian ...

OpenAI claims it solved an 80-year-old math problem — for real this time

OpenAI claims its reasoning model disproved a geometry conjecture unsolved since 1946 — and this time, the mathematicians who ...
eWeek

OpenAI’s Model Solves 80-Year-Old Math Problem

OpenAI says an AI reasoning model disproved an 80-year-old Erdős geometry conjecture, raising new questions about AI’s role ...

Google DeepMind claims AI progress after AlphaProof Nexus solves 9 Erdos math problems

Google’s latest milestone comes just days after OpenAI said one of its AI models cracked the famous “planar unit distance ...
Opinion

OpenAI’s Breakthrough On Famed Math Problem Actually Proves That Using AI To Find Counterexamples Is A Smart Strategy For Everyone

OpenAI makes big splash with AI finding math problem breakthrough. Real lesson is to use AI to find counterexamples. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
Research Snipers

Refuted by proof: OpenAI solves math problem after 80 years

According to the company, a new AI model has, for the first time, independently found proof that refutes an assumption from ...