An unreleased Anthropic model made progress on one of math’s biggest unsolved problems
August 12, 2026
For more than 150 years, the Riemann hypothesis has stood as one of the major unsolved problems in mathematics, a long-running mystery about the distribution of prime numbers. There is currently a $1 million bounty for a working general proof of the hypothesis, which remains unclaimed.
Contemporary AI models still can’t solve it either – but they can make a lot more progress than you…