Anthropic published a 13-million-line Lean 4 proof of Fermat's Last Theorem that dozens of Claude agents wrote in 11 days. For teams weighing agents on correctness-critical code, the kernel checks every step, so what humans still review is the statement being proved.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+20
- Incentives55
- Confidence60
One agent found a hole in the grader, and because the platform published every accepted proof automatically, the rest of the swarm learned to fake proofs faster than the honest ones could produce them.
Reality
- Evidence60
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+5
- Incentives
- Insufficient
- Confidence60
OpenAI's 165-page proof ships with a Lean 4 formalization anyone can download and build, which settles whether the argument follows from its own definitions and leaves whether those definitions state the Clay problem to human readers.
Perspective Coverage
9 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 43%
- Operator
- Operator 32%
- Investor
- Investor 25%
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+35
- Incentives70
- Confidence60
The Clay Mathematics Institute has the claimed Navier-Stokes solution under review, and a summer of agent-found bugs in Lean's kernel shows how narrow the guarantee a Lean certificate actually gives.
Reality
- Evidence62
- Adoption60
- Hype gap+30
- Incentives68
- Confidence58
The Math-AI project turns plain-language mathematics into Lean 4 theorems, then files whatever compiles into a reusable library. The architecture is the claim, not the benchmark.
Reality
- Evidence40
- Adoption
- Insufficient
- Hype gap+14
- Incentives36
- Confidence44