Anthropic's Lance Martin: 1,000 Claude Agents Proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 28.7 Hours
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-11-13
At AIE CODE 2026, Anthropic's Lance Martin presented two things: a swarm of 1,000 Claude agents that completed a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem in 28.7 hours, and how Claude handles memory and "dreaming." His 17-slide deck is written up in a long-form post.
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