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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