The AI Podcast AI Podcast: Math's New Era
Jan 15, 2026
Discover how AI is revolutionizing mathematics by inventing new methods and solving age-old problems. Hear about AI's redesign of matrix multiplication to enhance performance and reduce costs. Delve into ChatGPT's astonishing success in cracking an unsolved problem and the reasoning behind its approach. Learn about the growing trend of mathematicians leveraging AI to accelerate research and improve proof verification with advanced tools. Uncover the broader implications of enhanced AI reasoning across various fields like engineering and medicine.
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AI Reinvented Matrix Multiplication
- Jaeden Schafer recounts Mo Gada's story about AI inventing a new matrix multiplication method that improved performance by 26%.
- The change removed hundreds of millions in cost and energy for Google, showing AI can invent novel mathematical methods.
Models Cracking High-Level Math
- Jaeden Schafer notes modern models (like GPT-5 Pro) are solving high-level math problems and showing strong abstract algebra reasoning.
- These models are increasingly successful on benchmarks and competition-style tasks previously thought out of reach.
ChatGPT Solved An Unsolved Problem
- Jaeden Schafer tells Neil Somani's experience where ChatGPT solved a long unsolved math problem in 15 minutes and the solution verified as correct.
- Somani inspected the chain of thought and found the model combined known theorems and old posts into a novel, valid solution.