“On Tuesday night, OpenAI published hundreds of proofs for mathematicians to wrap their minds around.

An unprecedented number of answers that had eluded mathematicians for decades arrived in a single night. The deluge included AI solutions to more than 300 problems across number theory, algebraic geometry and other fields with names that could give anyone haunted by high-school math a migraine. Among the major findings in a collection of 722 papers were advances related to three of the five remaining Millennium Prize Problems, including the Riemann hypothesis.

'If a human did this, it would be an instant Fields Medal, no questions asked,' Alex Kontorovich, a Rutgers University distinguished math professor, wrote on X about the 'quasi-Riemann hypothesis' proof.

The understated rollout of such monumental results marked a shift in OpenAI’s approach to publishing scientific discoveries, part of an effort to win back mathematicians who have become allergic to AI hype in recent months. On late Tuesday and early Wednesday, many of them reported feeling a sense of awe.

As stunned math experts scrolled through the results and began to absorb them, even a researcher inside Anthropic called the release 'obviously the most significant moment in mathematical history.'”

From Wall Street Journal.