David Mataciunas

Today, we share a breakthrough on the planar unit distance problem, a famous open question first posed by Paul Erdős in 1946. For nearly 80 years, mathematicians believed the best possible solutions looked roughly like square grids. An OpenAI model has now disproved that belief, discovering an entirely new family of constructions that performs better. This marks the first time AI has autonomously solved a prominent open problem central to a field of mathematics.

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

someone built an OpenClaw agent that SELLS pool installations on autopilot. finds $500k–$1.2M homes without pools renders a pool in their backyard and mails a before/after postcard.

Hey everyone! I am super excited to share that our new research report is live on ArXiv! 🎉 IRPAPERS: A Visual Document Benchmark for Scientific Retrieval and Question Answering! Thread with more details! 🧵(1/11)

is anyone still interested in decentralized AI? mind if I ask why?

Proving it is better to be lucky than smart, I negotiated deep access to Demis Hassabis and DeepMind in November 2022. A week later, ChatGPT launched, and I began my deep-dive conversations with Demis and his team just as AI moved from the fringe to the mainstream. The result is The Infinity Machine. It's been a wild and fascinating ride.