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GPT-5 “solves 10 Erdős problems”: solutions already in the literature
GPT-5 “solves 10 Erdős problems”: the solutions were already in the literature
The gist
In October 2025, OpenAI staff announced that GPT-5 had solved 10 Erdős problems; the announcement was deleted because GPT-5 had found solutions that were already published. Status: withdrawn.
DiscoverIA status on October 11, 2026: withdrawn, meaning withdrawn or abandoned by its author, or marked incorrect by the reference source.
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A single status snapshot since Oct 11, 2026: a citation always points to a dated snapshot.
Cite snapshot 1, Oct 11, 2026
APA citation with the dated link
BibTeX @misc, key discoveria-erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10-r1
@misc{discoveria-erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10-r1,
author = {{DiscoverIA}},
title = {GPT-5 “solves 10 Erdős problems”: the solutions were already in the literature},
howpublished = {DiscoverIA registry, entry erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10},
note = {Status “Withdrawn”, snapshot 1, recorded on October 11, 2026. Literature search},
year = {2026},
url = {https://discoveria.ai/entry/erdos-339-gpt5-lit-search-2025-10#releve-1},
urldate = {2026-10-11}
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What it changes
This is not a solution: it is a literature search that linked problems listed as open to existing references. If the tool is reliable at that, it can help locate answers that were already published, which is a different contribution from proving something new.
What remains unclear
The original messages were deleted; the account rests on press coverage (The Decoder), which quotes Thomas Bloom of erdosproblems.com calling it “a dramatic misinterpretation”. The record does not detail how many references were actually found.
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Status
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What this status means
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Withdrawn or abandoned by its author, or marked incorrect by the reference source.
Sources
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Method
DiscoverIA status: withdrawn (withdrawn by its author or classed as incorrect by the reference source). Set on October 11, 2026 from the-decoder.com (page read through a model summary, quotation not rechecked).
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Key facts
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announced on Oct 12, 2025 - Nature
- literature search
- Field
- Mathematics (mathematics (literature search))
- Checked by
- Thomas Bloom (erdosproblems.com), quoted by The Decoder
- Sources
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Status history
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announcement deleted; GPT-5 had found existing references
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