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Caltech Mathathon: 40 Hours to Attack an Open Problem

mathathonchallenge.com ↗ · AI Table · score 78.0
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A Caltech-hosted mathematics marathon will give 100 teams frontier AI models and 40 hours to work on open conjectures.

Why it surfaced

The event puts IMO medalists and leading mathematics and physics researchers in the same room to test what AI can do at research level. Its premise is unusually concrete: not another AI productivity demo, but a timed attempt to move from conjecture to new mathematical theory.

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