The result is correct but challenges core norms of mathematics: checking proofs, crediting ideas and keeping research open to everyone.

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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 ...

Researchers have introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized to solve advanced math problems. It is now available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — free for ...

A mathematical model has now cracked the exact degree to which one should be ambitious and unlike conventional wisdom, it says 'don't shoot for the stars'. Researchers at the University of Wyoming, ...

DeepSeek made waves in early 2025, launching one of the world's first free-to-access thinking models. Now, the Chinese firm has just released DeepSeekMath-V2 with the objective of achieving ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal model—and what that could mean for mathematics.

Since the start of the 20th century, the heart of mathematics has been the proof — a rigorous, logical argument for whether a given statement is true or false. Mathematicians’ careers are measured by ...