GPT-5.4 Pro Helps Crack a 60-Year-Old Erdős Conjecture

OpenAI says GPT-5.4 Pro contributed to solving a decades-old open problem in combinatorics originally posed by Paul Erdős, marking a new milestone in AI-assisted mathematical research.

OpenAI announced that GPT-5.4 Pro played a role in solving a combinatorics problem that had remained open for roughly 60 years, originally posed by the legendary mathematician Paul Erdős, as @OpenAI shared. The company framed the result with a question: "What happens now that AI is getting good at math?"

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