AI-human collaboration cracks 70-year-old math problem: Grothendieck constant determined to be 1.7
swarat · x · 2026-08-14
Stanford professor Swarat announces that his students, through a year-long human-AI collaboration, have solved the 70-year-old Grothendieck constant problem, obtaining the exact value 1.7. The team publishes both the math and AI setup, advocating that academics shape AI-assisted research.
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