AI’s scientific breakthroughs
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AI and superintelligence are reaching the frontier of science. Every step they take uses ideas, methods and tools that generations of scientists spent their lives building.
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Mathematics
OpenAI Math Release: 719 AI-written mathematics and theoretical computer science manuscripts
On 6 October 2026 OpenAI released 722 mathematics and theoretical computer science manuscripts written by its internal model; 719 remain current, grouped into 372 results. Holding them up are the names below.
Note: on 7 October 2026 OpenAI withdrew 3 manuscripts and revised 14 others. The figures above count the 719 current manuscripts and update daily.
Source: github.com/openai/math (Apache 2.0)
From Euler to AI: Navier–Stokes and Euler
OpenAI’s two papers on the Navier–Stokes and Euler equations, released with Lean formalizations. Their 51 references run from Euler in 1757 to 2026.
Chemistry · Life sciences
From Anfinsen to AlphaFold: protein structure prediction
DeepMind’s AlphaFold 2 predicts protein structures with near-experimental accuracy, work recognised with half of the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. Its 84 references run from Anfinsen’s “sequence determines structure” in 1973 to 2021.
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