AnalysisScienceJuly 23, 2026

AI cracks 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture, unsettling mathematicians

An AI model solved the Jacobian conjecture, a problem open since 1939, verified by mathematicians within a day. Anthropic employee Levant Alpöge announced the result, drawing over 20 million views on X.

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