Hong: Axiom and Harmonic mistakenly claimed solved Erdős problems were new
Carina Hong · Scaling Past Informal AI - Carina Hong, Axiom Math · Jun 3, 2026 · at 59:19
Carina Hong, CEO of Axiom Math, addresses a mathematical controversy regarding claims about solving Erdős problems 124 and 481.
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“So actually what happened was our competitor, Harmonic, decided to publicize that they have solved unsolved problems, Erdos number one two four and four 81, and then we trusted their literature review, believing that these problems are really, truly unsolved. And we were really young company at the time. We wanted to test if our system can attempt to try the problems that our competitor Can. We fully did not expect that it actually solved them, but turns out that we were both wrong that, in fact, the problem has been solved before.”
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