A math problem with a $1 million bounty may have just met its match—and the solver appears to be artificial intelligence. OpenAI says one of its models not yet available to the public solved the "Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem,

Anthropic says AI model Claude spent 11 days turning Fermat's Last Theorem into 13 million lines of code a computer can check itself.

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved problems in combinatorics, a prominent branch of math and ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the "unit distance conjecture" had just been resolved by generative AI. Since then, there has been a steady ...