{"id":23195,"date":"2026-05-21T18:37:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/openai-makes-breakthrough-on-80-year-old-maths-problem\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T18:37:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T16:37:19","slug":"openai-makes-breakthrough-on-80-year-old-maths-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/openai-makes-breakthrough-on-80-year-old-maths-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Company says work on Paul Erd\u0151s planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning<\/p>\n<p>OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.<\/p>\n<p>The company behind ChatGPT said it had <a href=\"https:\/\/openai.com\/index\/model-disproves-discrete-geometry-conjecture\/\">made a breakthrough<\/a> with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd\u0151s in 1946: the planar unit distance problem.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/may\/21\/openai-paul-erdos-maths-problem-breakthrough\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/ecbb6cb95ae2dab5c5835cff0dba641681d2c850\/0_228_2283_1826\/master\/2283.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=616d200707bbebe8fa844fda43f60382\" title=\"OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem\" \/>Company says work on Paul Erd\u0151s planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning<br \/>\nOpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem.<br \/>\nThe company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd\u0151s in 1946: the planar unit distance problem. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Company says work on Paul Erd\u0151s planar unit distance problem shows advance in AI reasoning OpenAI has claimed a further advance in AI reasoning after its technology successfully tackled an 80-year-old maths problem. The company behind ChatGPT said it had made a breakthrough with a challenge first posed by Hungarian mathematician Paul Erd\u0151s in 1946: &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/openai-makes-breakthrough-on-80-year-old-maths-problem\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">OpenAI makes breakthrough on 80-year-old maths problem<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":23196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}