AI sets world record on bounded prime gaps, cutting the bound to 212
f_charton · x · 2026-09-03
Axiom's math AI announced a world record on bounded gaps between primes, one of number theory's oldest open conjectures: infinitely many prime pairs are separated by 212 or less (previous record: 246).
The result came from collaboration between number theorists, applied mathematicians, AxiomProver, and massive compute — a landmark case of human-AI collaboration cracking a pure math problem.
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