For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper ...

On a recent Sunday night, an employee at Anthropic was out for a jog in San Francisco, opened the Claude app on his phone and instructed the outrageously powerful AI model in his pocket to solve the ...

Do you understand quantum parallel repetition? What about quantum complexity, lattice cryptography, or extremal combinatorics? The new OpenAI model Astra knows all about them. Recently, OpenAI ...

OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer ...

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Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians. What does that mean for their future? Credit...Illustrations by Yoshi ...

Think about placing dots on a flat surface. You want as many pairs as possible to be separated by the same distance. For any amount of dots, what is the greatest possible number of pairs that can be ...

Bumblebees faced with a challenge know how to play ball. Buff-tailed bumblebees can figure out on their own how to use a ball as a ladder to nab sugar from an out-of-reach fake flower, researchers ...

“If you are a mathematician,” one of the world’s leading mathematicians recently wrote, “you may want to make sure you are sitting down before reading further.” And you’ll definitely need to sit down ...

OpenAI claims its model solved a famous geometry problem that has eluded the world’s greatest mathematicians for 80 years — a breakthrough hailed as evidence of the bot’s creativity and “intuition.” ...

In October 2024 I attended a workshop at Harvard University where mathematicians talked through the uses of artificial intelligence in their field. Most were less worried about the future of math than ...