Think You’re Good at Math? See How Far You Get With These 10 Unsolved Problems

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper numerical knowledge. Some math problems have been challenging us for centuries—but a new frontier could change that: artificial intelligence.
Ars Technica

An OpenAI model solved a famous math problem that stumped humans for 80 years

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 years. OpenAI gave several mathematicians early access to ...
eWeek

Unreleased Claude Model Makes Breakthrough on 167-Year-Old Math Problem

Anthropic says an unreleased Claude model produced a potentially new mathematical result while attempting to solve the famous Riemann hypothesis.
TechCrunch

DeepSeek upgrades its math-focused AI model Prover

Chinese AI lab DeepSeek has quietly updated Prover, its AI model that’s designed to solve math-related proofs and theorems. According to South China Morning Post, DeepSeek uploaded the latest version of Prover, V2, and a distilled variant to AI dev ...
VentureBeat

New open-source math model Light-R1-32B surpasses equivalent DeepSeek performance with only $1000 in training costs

Researchers have introduced Light-R1-32B, a new open-source AI model optimized to solve advanced math problems. It is now available on Hugging Face under a permissive Apache 2.0 license — free for enterprises and researchers to take, deploy, fine-tune or ...
Forbes

Meet The Stanford Dropout Building An AI To Solve Math’s Hardest Problems—And Create Harder Ones

24-year-old founder and CEO Carina Hong created Axiom Math in March 2025 and has recruited a team of ten employees, most of whom are from Meta, to build a math-focused AI model. Last fall, Carina Hong, a PhD student at Stanford University, spent her ...
Inc.

Meta’s New AI Model Touts Progress in Math and Language

Mark Zuckerberg during an interview at Meta headquarters in Menlo Park, California.. Photo: Getty Images Meta Platforms released the biggest version of its mostly free Llama 3 artificial intelligence models on Tuesday, boasting multilingual skills and ...
VentureBeat

Alibaba claims no. 1 spot in AI math models with Qwen2-Math

Want smarter insights in your inbox? Sign up for our weekly newsletters to get only what matters to enterprise AI, data, and security leaders. Subscribe Now If you haven’t heard of “Qwen2” it’s understandable, but that should all change starting ...
University of Delaware

Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp

The GSMM Camp is a weeklong workshop that builds interdisciplinary problem-solving skills for graduate and advanced undergraduate students. Participants work in teams on mathematically rich problems drawn from real industrial applications, guided by ...