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Google DeepMind Says Their AI System Helped Solve Nine ‘Open Erdős Problems’

Google DeepMind said its AI agent autonomously solved nine open problems associated with Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős. (Image: DeepMind / Wikimedia Commons)

Google DeepMind’s AlphaProof Nexus agent autonomously solved nine open problems associated with Hungarian mathematician Paul Erdős — two of them open for 56 years. The announcement, days after OpenAI claimed to have disproved an Erdős conjecture from 1946, signals a shift in how AI labs are testing mathematical reasoning.