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   AI-assisted formal verification draws startups and investment

   AI systems have sharply reduced the reported time and cost of formal software verification, while startups including &Truth, Harmonic, Theorem and Axiom Math are expanding the field. &Truth launched publicly with $70 million in funding, and Anthropic and Theorem announced an AI-assisted project that found and patched hundreds of defects in 123 open-source libraries. Stanford researcher Chuyue Sun reported that her AI system completed the remaining specifications and proofs for an encryption library in 11.4 hours at a cost of about $467 after receiving the top-level specification. The reports differ on the human effort involved: WIRED described five months of work by three experts, while MIT Technology Review cited eight months by five major contributors. Axiom Math separately said AI agents produced 43.1 million lines of Lean-checkable formalized code for a mathematical proof in 24 days; that vendor claim was not independently validated. Formal verification remains experimental, and its guarantees depend on the correctness of specifications. Pricing, adoption and its ability to address user errors or hardware failures remain uncertain.

   WIRED AI · 🔥 7
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   Axiom reports a 24-day Lean formalization of CFSG

   Axiom Math says that dozens of AI agents, coordinated with human mathematicians and engineers, completed a Lean formalization of the first-generation proof of the Classification of Finite Simple Groups in 24 days. The company reports about 43.1 million lines of Lean code and 2.05 million declarations, and has opened the repository for inspection. Axiom also says the formalization uncovered an issue in a published argument for the Unbalanced Group Theorem, leading to an alternative route and the result “Preservation of simple tops.” The repository’s review status is described as a team assessment; external mathematicians still need to verify that the formal statement matches CFSG and independently assess the claimed issue and repair.

   Hacker News 首页（100+ 分） · 🔥 11
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   OpenAI Releases Three Preliminary AI Research Findings

   OpenAI announced three preliminary findings spanning mathematics, computer science, and physics, presenting the manuscripts as raw research material that requires external verification and interpretation. The release follows its publication of 722 AI-generated mathematics manuscripts, drawing criticism from Terence Tao, who called parts of the resulting proof workload “toxic waste” and warned that corporate competition was neglecting human understanding. OpenAI denied claims by Tao that it had prioritized the work at the highest level, paused new-user registration, or spent tens of millions of dollars on the effort.

   钛媒体 · 🔥 10

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