Mathematicians Grapple with a 'Very Rapid and Very Unsettling Change' The latest milestone in AI's progress through mathematics has left many mathematicians feeling like they're watching a familiar scene play out in slow motion: another century old problem falls, and with it, their grip on an increasingly automated profession.
On Sunday, an Anthropic model solved the Jacobian conjecture, a puzzle that had puzzled German mathematician Ott Heinrich Keller since 1939.
This breakthrough is part of a larger trend – AI's stunning progress in mathematics since mid 2025, when OpenAI's model first solved five out of six problems at the International Mathematical Olympiad.