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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.

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