Claude Fable 5 reportedly helped disprove an 87-year-old conjecture with a verifiable counterexample

thione · x · 2026-07-27

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 reportedly helped disprove the 87-year-old Jacobian conjecture by producing a verifiable counterexample.

If accurate, this is a striking example of an AI system contributing to a long-standing mathematical result, with the key claim being that the counterexample is verifiable rather than a hand-wavy suggestion.

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