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Kit Yates

MYSTERIOUS: Ai is solving impossible math problems can it best the world s top mathematicians - You Need To See This

Illustration of mathematician in pink shirt writing on a fragment of a chalkboard while AI hand places piece in the middle.

In October 2024, news broke that Facebook parent company Meta had cracked an "impossible" problem that had stymied mathematicians for a century.

In this case, the solvers weren't human.

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