AI BriefingClaude Mythos Proves Erdős Math Problem
Key point
Anthropic's Claude Mythos discovered a new proof for an Erdős math problem.
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Anthropic engineer Sholto Douglas revealed that a new AI model, Claude Mythos, found a simple, novel alternative proof for Erdős's distinct distances problem, which had remained unsolved for 80 years.
This achievement was made possible through an experimental framework called Claude Code. Multiple Claude Mythos agents independently analyzed the problem from different angles, after which a single agent integrated the results and used Claude Opus 4.7 to refine the final proof.
Mathematician Daniel Litt commented that even though this proof isn't as rigorous as OpenAI's extensive documentation, it is highly impressive that the model found two completely new alternative solutions. This serves as a powerful example showing that Agentic systems can achieve independent scientific breakthroughs.
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