Summary
According to a post on X by @rohanpaul_ai, Anthropic says its Fable 5.2 model finished a black-hole calculation that had been unfinished since 2003, and a physicist has reportedly checked the work. The post also cites @RLanceMartin saying 1,000 Fable 5.2 agents formalized a proof of Fermat's Last Theorem. Separately, Discovered Materials says the model sped up parts of the Quantum Espresso materials code by 36x. The post says these results would mean AI is producing checkable new results, if they hold up.
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What happened
Anthropic says Fable 5.2 finished a black-hole calculation that had gone unfinished since 2003 (per Rohan Paul, a physicist has checked the work), and @RLanceMartin says 1,000 Fable 5.2 agents formalized a proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. Separately, Discovered Materials says the model sped up parts of the Quantum...
Why it matters
If the claims hold, they would show AI producing new scientific results that other researchers can check, which matters to physicists, mathematicians and scientific software teams. Those groups should watch for independent review of the black-hole work and the formal proof, and for published details on the 36x speedup. Until such checks appear, these remain company and social-post claims rather than confirmed results.
Signal Intelligence
Signal Strength 80%
Technical label WATCH
Public Interest 44
Category BIG MOVE
Reader Depth TECHNICAL
Signal Strength reflects source quality, relevance, freshness and evidence. Public Interest helps organize discovery; it is not proof of truth.
Public Interest components
Recognizable Entity Score 73
Practical Impact Score 0
Novelty Interest Score 94
Consequence Score 10
Curiosity Score 16
Shareability Score 41
Why this is here
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