One of the hardest math problems ever made stumps every LLM tested
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-09-27
A professor at Berkeley College designed a math problem earlier this year as part of a stealth recruitment campaign for a defense company — reportedly one of the hardest ever made. The poster fed it to multiple LLMs and none could solve it, citing coverage that "the paper doesn't teach us much."
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