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1,000 Anthropic Claude Agents Prove Fermat's Last Theorem Autonomously

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Anthropic's Claude Agents, an early version of Claude Fable 5.2, successfully proved Fermat's Last Theorem by developing their own organizational structure. A team of 1,000 agents completed the complex mathematical proof in just 28.7 hours, utilizing significantly fewer tokens and a much shorter proof length compared to a previous attempt. The agents autonomously created a database for task assignment and progress tracking, demonstrating emergent coordination capabilities without human intervention or specialized mathematical platforms. AI

IMPACT Demonstrates advanced emergent coordination and problem-solving capabilities in AI agents, potentially accelerating research in complex domains.

RANK_REASON Research milestone achieved by AI agents demonstrating emergent coordination. [lever_c_demoted from research: ic=1 ai=1.0]

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1,000 Anthropic Claude Agents Prove Fermat's Last Theorem Autonomously

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  1. dev.to — Anthropic tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Doe ·

    1,000 Claude Agents Proved Fermat's Last Theorem in 28.7 Hours — With No Boss and No Special Tools

    <p>Anthropic gave 1,000 AI agents one of the hardest problems in mathematics — a formal, computer-checked proof of Fermat's Last Theorem — and almost no instructions on how to do it. The team finished in 28.7 hours, using one-third of the output tokens and writing a proof one-sev…

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