An infamous math problem broke AI—until a high-school dropout said 'you got this'

The world’s smartest AI models are now superhuman at math. They still respond to moral support and encouragement from mere humans.
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

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 ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong ...
TechCrunch

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

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 ...