Mathematics

On October 15, the Simons Foundation announced a partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI committing 15 million dollars in combined funding and resources to help mathematicians navigate the rapid rise of AI in their field. The foundation will manage and award the money, including through an open call for proposals, supporting workshops and programs where researchers evaluate recent AI-assisted results, learn new tools, share perspectives, and shape collective standards for AI use.

OpenAI has thrown the mathematics world into turmoil. On October 6 and 7, the company published 722 manuscripts on GitHub claiming progress on 372 families of long-standing open problems, spanning theoretical computer science, physics, and mathematics, produced by an unreleased internal AI model whose full capabilities have not been disclosed.