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happy wednesday, AI family, and welcome back to AI Valley.

here are the biggest things worth knowing today:

• OpenAI releases findings on 377 math problems

• The state of the tech industry in 2026

• Plus trending AI tools, posts, and resources

Let’s dive into the Valley of AI…

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THROUGH THE VALLEY

OpenAI releases internal model’s findings on 377 math problems - they give an internal model ~4000 open research problems and get 722 manuscripts proving 372 families of new results in number theory, theoretical computer science, physics, etc.

They claim to prove a "quasi-Riemann hypothesis", which while not the $1M Riemann Hypothesis from the Millennium Prize problems, is not far from it. For 162 of the manuscripts, they formalize the main result in Lean, which is then mechanically verified by a computer.

Most impressively, they claim to get almost all of these results in one prompt, taking on average ~3 hours of thinking compute on ChatGPT Pro. Their recent result on the Navier-Stokes equations used 10,000 AI agents.

Mathematician at Anthropic Levent Alpgge calls this "obviously the most significant moment in mathematical history":

They also talk about how devastating this is for young mathematicians who were hoping to make a career solving these problems. The same mathematician says that high school students are asking him "is there anything left for me to do in mathematics".

Soon AI will be spitting out new math faster than people can read it.

TRENDING TOOLS

• diio > turns thousands of customer conversations into an intelligence layer AI can understand, reason over, and act on _^(sponsored)

• Core - a personal AI computer that runs models entirely on device. It connects to your apps, files, and devices, builds context on your life over time, and works continuously to help you

• Claude - now works inside Google Docs, Sheets, and Slides, and those files also open inside Claud

• EmbeddingGemma 2 - powers private search across text, photos, audio, and video that can run directly on a laptop, phone, or browser

• iphone-use - gives an AI agent a real iPhone: the screen as text, tap, type and scroll over WebDriverAgent, with an honest answer for every action

• Nano Banana 2.1 - Google's latest image generation and editing model

• Incredible - personal AI assistant that learns by watching you do  your work

• Manus 2.0 - features a video editor that can edit, make shots, VO and more

• Era - a fake company to test enterprise agents

• Beam - a highly efficient agentic open model with 501B total parameters and 23B active

• Web Search API - lets your AI agents and applications search the Internet and ground their responses in live information

• Hark Pro - now live on web, iOS, and Android

WHAT I'M CONSUMING

• The state of the tech industry in 2026

• How to keep learning in the age of LLMs

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