OpenAI says it cracked 90-year-old maths problem in 88 hours

OpenAI says it has found a solution to a decades-old advanced maths problem in a matter of hours using a new artificial intelligence (AI) model and thousands of AI bots.

OpenAI admitted that last week, on 1 September, it had "heard rumours that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved" and so decided to put thousands of AI bots trained on the new internal model to work on solving some of the remaining problems.

While the new OpenAI model remains a tool only used within the company, as it is "significantly more capable" than the company's most recent AI model release, its researchers decided to use it on certain notable advanced maths problems.