A new benchmark pitting AI against previously unseen maths problems shows systems still fall short of top human expertise.

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got ...

Artificial intelligence is mastering the kinds of projects that have long helped to build the careers of young mathematicians ...

A recent AI-generated proof that resolved a decades-old mathematical problem has sparked a broader question about the future of human innovation.

OpenAI said one of its internal models had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul ...

For nearly eight decades, some of the sharpest minds in mathematics stared at a deceptively simple question about dots on a flat surface and couldn’t crack it. An AI just did. OpenAI announced that ...

Mathematician Will Sawin discusses his experience reviewing and refining a mathematical proof devised by OpenAI's internal ...

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 ...

A recent announcement that an artificial intelligence model succeeded in solving a decades-old mathematical problem that had eluded generations of accomplished mathematicians was widely portrayed as ...

“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 ...