# @anik on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DZsglGhMNBc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/66753635-anik-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-06-17T17:31:45.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Anik Singal (@anik) — https://gondola.cc/anik

## Caption

An 80-year-old unsolved math problem. 

An AI solved it last week. 

Alone.

In 1946, mathematician Paul Erdős posed a problem about points and distances. 

Simple to describe. Impossible to prove. The best minds in the world tried for eight decades. 

Nobody cracked it.

Then OpenAI handed it to a general AI model, not a specialised math AI and walked away.

It came back with a 125-page proof using ideas from a completely different branch of mathematics, nobody thought was even related.

They sent it to the world's top mathematicians, including a Fields Medal winner, the Nobel Prize of math. 

Every step verified. 

The AI was right.

First time in history an AI solved a major open problem completely on its own. 

Not assisted. Solved.

For decades, we assumed AI could only repeat what humans knew. Last week, that assumption ended.

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