Liam Price, a 23 year old just solved a math problem on which mathematicians were stuck for the past 60 years using not…
By OpenAI Developers · AI
Liam Price, a 23 year old just solved a math problem on which mathematicians were stuck for the past 60 years using nothing but a $20 ChatGPT subscription. He just casually feeds old math problems into AI to see what happens, something researchers have started calling "vibe maths." So he typed in Erdős Problem #1196, a number theory conjecture open since 1966, into GPT-5.4 Pro. The model spent 80 minutes reasoning and came back with what looked like a complete proof.