UCLA professor and mathematician Terence Tao has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.

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A team of AI researchers and mathematicians affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has developed a math benchmark that allows scientists to test the ability of AI systems to solve exceptionally difficult math problems. Their paper is ...

Artificial intelligence systems may be good at generating text, recognizing images, and even solving basic math problems—but when it comes to advanced mathematical reasoning, they are hitting a wall. A groundbreaking new benchmark, FrontierMath, is ...

The FrontierMath benchmark from Epoch AI tests generative models on difficult math problems. Find out how OpenAI’s o3 and other AI models performed. FrontierMath accuracy for OpenAI’s o3 and o4-mini compared to leading models. Image: Epoch AI The ...

Every year, thousands of college students from across the U.S. and Canada give up a full Saturday before finals begin to take a notoriously difficult, 6-hour math test — and not for a grade, but for fun. In “the Putnam,” as it’s known, contestants ...

Last month, OpenAI announced that its latest version of ChatGPT had solved a major math problem, one that had stumped experts for 80 years. This was considered among the most important unsolved problems in combinatorics, a prominent branch of math and ...

For all of the recent strides we’ve made in the math world, we’re forever crunching calculations in pursuit of deeper numerical knowledge. Some math problems have been challenging us for centuries—but a new frontier could change that: artificial ...