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

Via Ars Technica AI
Monday, Jun 1, 2026 · 11:00AM
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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 years. OpenAI gave several mathematicians early access to the result and published their reactions. Tim

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