AI Solves 50-Year-Old Math Conjecture
umesh_ai · x · 2026-07-12
OpenAI announced that its newly released GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra model successfully proved the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture—a problem that has puzzled the math community for 50 years—in less than an hour.
During the process, the model deployed 64 sub-agents to work collaboratively. Official links to the relevant prompts and the proof process were also shared to encourage developers to explore the capabilities of the Ultra model.
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