Latinum Frontier Mathematics Research Lab

Our first “Make it Formal” podcast is live. We sat down with @Leonard41111588, the creator of Lean, for nearly an hour. We covered 12 years of building the tool that almost every major AI reasoning system now depends on. Here are 7 things I took away from the conversation. 🧵

Full episode: 🎧 Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/6chE24… 📺 YouTube: youtu.be/zjmOXC9WZ-s?si… 🌐 latinum.ai This is the first in a series exploring AI, mathematics, and formal verification with the people building it.

7/ Leo's colleague asked Claude to convert zlib, a production C compression library, into verified Lean code. Leo says he would have called this impossible six months ago. The cost of formal verification is collapsing. That changes everything about how we build software.

Our first “Make it Formal” podcast is live. We sat down with @Leonard41111588, the creator of Lean, for nearly an hour. We covered 12 years of building the tool that almost every major AI reasoning system now depends on. Here are 7 things I took away from the conversation. 🧵

I wrote the full history here: latinumai.substack.com/publish/post/1…

This convergence is what drew us to pivot Latinum from agentic commerce to a frontier maths research lab. Our agent Spock is built to reason formally at that frontier. The best maths of the next decade will be done by humans and machines together.

In 2023, AI models could barely pass a secondary school maths exam. By early 2026, they're solving open research problems that have stumped mathematicians for decades and producing new results in theoretical physics. Formal mathematics is at the centre of it. 🧵