
indianexpress.com
May 21, 2026
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Summary
OpenAI has said that its unreleased AI reasoning model solved a decades-old mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for nearly 80 years. The model produced an original mathematical proof disproving a famous geometry conjecture, OpenAI said in a blog post published on Wednesday, May 20. At the centre of the purported breakthrough is the ‘Planar unit distance problem’ first posed by [who is ...