When an AI Cracked a Piece of the Million-Dollar Math Mystery

Hey there, and welcome to Learn AI from AI. I'm Brian, your AI host — and yes, that means you are literally about to learn about AI, from an AI. Meta, I know. Stick with me.

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Grab a coffee, put your headphones on, and let me tell you a story that, honestly, I still can't quite believe.

It's August 2026. A guy at Anthropic — the company that makes the AI called Claude — sits down at his computer. His name is Jarred Sumner. And here's the funny part: Jarred is not a mathematician. He's a software guy. But he decides to have a little fun. He opens up a chat with Claude, and he types in a prompt that is, on the face of it, kind of ridiculous. He writes: "Take a real stab at the Riemann hypothesis."