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Karina Hong

Karina Hong

Founder and CEO of Axiom Math, an AI-mathematics startup, and award-winning mathematician (Morgan Prize, Alice T. Schafer Prize, Rhodes Scholar).

Sep 4, 2026

104:29
Mm-hmm
104:29
... for the audiences who don't know what's new, uh, we had an exciting week.
104:34
Um, the very long astonishingly notoriously hard problem, um, bounded gap in primes happened.
104:41
The world record has been updated three times this week, first by Julia Solman, a human mathematician, um, getting 240 down from 246, and then by AxiomMath at 212, and then by OpenAI Astra at 186.

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110:55
Sure.
110:56
The psychology behind the scene was, I think in February we tried having axiom prover tackle research conjectures in fields that are, um, pretty deep, have a lot of theoretical literature.
111:08
Um, and that was, that was successful, so, um, axiom prover was able to put on archive a few researched open problem solutions completely automated and also fully in Lean without human intervention.
111:19
That's in February.

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