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

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

AI tools helped solve around 100 extant problems left behind by one of the 20th century's greatest mathematicians. Hungarian Paul Erdős proposed 1,179 conjectures — unproved math statements, such as ...

For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics. Anthropic hasn't solved it — but the company's models made more progress than you might ...

OpenAI’s latest AI model, Astra, has gained attention for solving ten significant mathematical problems, including breakthroughs in sphere packing and geometric conjectures. These areas have ...

Thomas Mulligan explores the Millennium Prize Problems, detailing the seven legendary mathematics puzzles that remain ...

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 ...

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After 80 years of fruitless struggle by human mathematicians, a major geometry conjecture has at last been solved—via a straightforward query to a chatbot. “No previous AI-generated proof has come ...

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 ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...