AI just solved one of the world’s hardest math problems.

The company’s announcement is the most dramatic sign yet that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming the field ...

(Black_Kira/iStock/Getty Images) Quantum computers already exist and are advancing quickly, but scientists predict there's ...

An NYU math professor claims the AI behemoth rushed to solve the problem after discovering his progress.

The company’s announcement has been dogged by questions about whether it improperly used work from another research team or ...

The surprising real-world applications of high-dimensional sphere packing and the 48-year-old barrier that OpenAI just broke ...

As the leading AI labs battle for math supremacy, OpenAI spent millions of dollars and cracked the Navier-Stokes problem.

Moser’s circle problem can be used to divide a pizza into one, two, four, eight, 16 or 31 slices. It’s a perfect example of ...

For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands ...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly advancing—and with it, the promise of solving some of academia's toughest problems.

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