OpenAI has said that Astra, a model it has not yet released publicly, produced solutions to ten long-open problems in ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

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In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

Anthropic says an unreleased Claude model produced a potentially new mathematical result while attempting to solve the famous Riemann hypothesis.

Neurosurgery researcher Jin Shanmu has very little formal education in mathematics but solved a major problem in linear ...

OpenAI’s Astra generates machine‑checkable proofs for ten decades‑old math problems, showing how verified AI can cut discovery costs to about two thousand dollars.

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 ...

Computers are extremely good with numbers, but they haven’t gotten many human mathematicians fired. Until recently, they could barely hold their own in high school-level math competitions. But now ...

Artificial intelligence has been inching toward genuine mathematical discovery for years, but a claim from OpenAI in early ...