AI is now solving mathematical problems that have remained unsolved for more than half a century!
@GoogleDeepMind's AlphaProof Nexus has successfully solved 9 previously open Erdős problems, including two that had resisted mathematicians for 56 years. It also proved 44 previously open conjectures from the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.
The really exciting part is how it works. AI agents autonomously search for mathematical proofs, while the Lean proof assistant formally verifies their correctness. No relying on an LLM's word that its reasoning is sound.
The results have just been published in Science. We're moving beyond AI solving math competition problems to AI actually contributing new mathematical knowledge. And this is only the beginning!