AnalysisScienceOctober 23, 2026

Essay examines why AI models are suddenly solving open math problems

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Latent Space essay traces OpenAI's internal model finding a counterexample to Erdős's unit distance conjecture (open since 1946), then a Cycle Double Cover proof and ten more open problems by July, plus a Navier-Stokes proof in September. It uses WT Gowers' hint-sequence complexity model (2^k + t) to predict which problems LLMs can crack.

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