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Scientific discovery · May 2026

OpenAI unreleased model

An 80-year-old Erdős conjecture disproved

While evaluating an unreleased model, it found a new family of constructions disproving the planar unit-distance conjecture.

OpenAI published the proof and remarks from external mathematicians. This is distinct from the earlier overstated GPT-5 case that merely recovered existing literature.

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OpenAI · discrete geometry conjectureOpen primary source