The seven Millennium Prize Problems represent some of the hardest unsolved questions in mathematics, including one famously solved by Grigory Perelman, who refused the million-dollar reward.

OpenAI’s unreleased model solved five of 10 unpublished research-level math problems and proposed a breakthrough physics formula, signaling a new era for AI in science.

In at least two cases, the AI tool was “able to construct an original and valid proof” to unsolved conjectures.

Five years ago, mathematicians Dawei Chen and Quentin Gendron were trying to untangle a difficult area of algebraic geometry involving differentials, elements of calculus used to measure distance ...