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Caltech Mathathon – first hackathon ever devoted to research level mathematics


40 hours, $2M+ AI credits, solve an open problem. AI has made groundbreaking progress in pure math in the past few months: - May 20, 2026: Erdos's planar unit-distance conjecture was disproved (open 80 years)[1].

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