OpenAI Astra mathematics proofs: OpenAI's unreleased Astra model solved ten decade-old open problems in math and theoretical ...

OpenAI announced its next major AI model Saturday, and it did so in the third paragraph of a blog post called “Ten advances ...

Alpöge’s discovery is the latest in a string of high-profile mathematical breakthroughs made by large language models. Recent examples include OpenAI’s disproof of the unit distance conjecture, and ...

Baboons and macaques appear to use some of the same mental strategies as humans when matching shapes, suggesting that the ...

Hiraku Nakajima, president of the International Mathematical Union, speaks before presenting the Fields Medals during the International Congress of Mathematicians in Philadelphia on July 23, 2026. The ...

The new AI Step-by-Step Grader evaluates paper-based submissions, awards partial credit, and saves math faculty hours of ...

Mathematicians Yu Deng, John Pardon, Jacob Tsimerman and Hong Wang have won the 2026 Fields Medal — one of the most coveted ...

AI systems continue to accelerate at finding solutions to math problems. OpenAI’s Ethan Knight posted on X that GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra, made generally available just a day earlier, had produced a proof of ...

For years, physicists were stuck in trying to explain an important mathematical problem in physics. The right approach ended up being too simple. Reading time 3 minutes As typically is the case with ...

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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 ...

Fez – For decades, one of mathematics’ most famous unsolved puzzles resisted the efforts of researchers around the world. Now, an artificial intelligence model developed by OpenAI has achieved what ...