Anthropic announced its AI model, Claude, produced the first complete, computer-verified proof of Fermat's Last Theorem.
The AI worked largely autonomously over 11 days to formalize the proof in the Lean programming language. Experts previously estimated this task would require years of human effort to complete.
Claude generated 13 million lines of Lean code to verify the proof originally established by Andrew Wiles in 1995. The verification process required proving 29,500 intermediate theorems.
This achievement demonstrates AI's capacity for abstract reasoning and its potential to automate the verification of complex mathematical research.