An OpenAI Model ‘Disproved’ a Famous Math Conjecture. This Mathematician Couldn’t Leave It Alone

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...
Interesting Engineering

80-year-old geometry mystery cracked by OpenAI using deep number theory

OpenAI has revealed a breakthrough proof that overturns a nearly 80-year-old geometry conjecture posed by Paul Erdős.
Tech Times

OpenAI Model Cracks 80-Year Erdős Conjecture, Verified by Its Harshest Previous Critic

On May 20, OpenAI said an internal reasoning model had produced a counterexample to Paul Erdős’s 1946 unit distance ...

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 ...
Wired

‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture

They made some progress, re-proving the conjecture in two dimensions using different techniques—ones they hoped would be applicable to the three-dimensional case. But then they hit a wall. “At some ...