A brainy riddle that's stumped mathematicians since World War II appears to have been cracked via artificial intelligence.

The chatbot’s result for the 80-year-old “unit distance” conjecture is the first AI proof that would likely be published in ...

A general-purpose reasoning model, not a math-trained system, produced a new family of point configurations that broke Paul ...

The AI-assisted math results were first coming in a trickle, but they seem to be threatening to turn into a deluge. OpenAI ...

OpenAI AI reasoning model claims breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, solving Paul Erdos 1946 puzzle and impressing top mathematicians ...

OpenAI says an internal model autonomously cracked an 80-year-old math problem, raising new questions about AI's research ...

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...

In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...