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OpenAI’s latest AI model, Astra, has gained attention for solving ten significant mathematical problems, including breakthroughs in sphere packing and geometric conjectures. These areas have ...

OpenAI Group PBC revealed Saturday that an internal version of Astra, the model family it calls its next major release, produced new results for 10 problems in mathematics and theoretical computer ...

OpenAI has revealed Astra, an unreleased model designed to tackle complex, long-running tasks, after an internal version produced ten significant advances in mathematics and theoretical computer ...

OpenAI's unreleased Astra model has produced what its October 2025 announcement only pretended to: genuine solutions to ten long-standing open problems in mathematics and theoretical computer science, ...

In May 2026, OpenAI released a new math result that sent shock waves throughout the world of mathematical research. A major unsolved problem called the “unit distance conjecture” had just been ...

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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 ...