New research finds girls and women more often use step-by-step algorithms, while boys and men use shortcuts. Accuracy is ...

You can probably think of a time when you’ve used math to solve an everyday problem, such as calculating a tip at a restaurant or determining the square footage of a room. But what role does math play ...

A tricky math exam question aimed at fifth graders has gone viral on the internet after many adults said they were not able to solve it. The challenging question, meant for students aged between 10 ...

A Japanese entrepreneur is offering to shell out $1 million (140 million yen) to anyone who can finally resolve a deadlock over a proof of a math brainteaser. Nobuo Kawakami, the founder of Dwango Co.

As generative AI (GenAI) gains popularity across various fields, OpenAI, led by Sam Altman, has unveiled a new 'reasoning' model. This model has been trained to answer complex questions faster than ...

Google LLC today detailed Minerva, an internally developed neural network that can answer mathematical questions and tackle other complex topics such as physics. Minerva is a natural language ...

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AI systems that can solve complex math could allow us to build more powerful AI tools. This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your ...

OpenAI o1 is a new large language model trained with reinforcement learning to perform complex reasoning. o1 thinks before it answers—it can produce a long internal chain of thought before responding ...