AI solves 80-year-old math conjecture for under $1000
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Generative AI
GPT-next solved an 80-year-old Erdős combinatorics conjecture for under $1,000 in compute. That single fact reframes everything else happening this week. The Erdős unit distance problem resisted human mathematicians since 1946. A frontier model closed it at a cost lower than a mid-tier SaaS subscription, which means the boundary between "AI as tool" and "AI as independent discoverer" is no longer theoretical.