In September 2019, news broke regarding progress on this 82-year-old question, thanks to prolific mathematician Terence Tao. And while the story of Tao’s breakthrough is promising, the problem isn’t ...

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on ...

DeepSeek's AI models rival top Silicon Valley offerings, excelling in some complex tasks. The models use inference-time compute, breaking queries into smaller, manageable tasks. DeepSeek's DeepThink ...

The International Math Olympiad (IMO) is a challenging math competition that has been held annually since 1959. AI models from Google DeepMind and OpenAI received gold medal scores in IMO for the ...

Think of the last time you concentrated deeply to solve a challenging problem. To crack a math puzzle or determine a chess move, for example, you might have had to screen multiple strategies and ...

COOLIDGE, AZ — The students at Imagine Coolidge Elementary were given a challenge over Christmas break—solve 1,000,000 math problems, and their principal, Erik Collins, would spend the night sleeping ...

The race is on to develop an artificial intelligence that can do pure mathematics, and top mathematicians just threw down the gauntlet with an exam of actual, unsolved problems that are relevant to ...