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Astra Solved 10 Decades-Old Problems on a Rounding Error of Compute. The Real Story Is the Cost Curve.

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Before GPT-6 Astra made headlines for finding zero-days, it did something quieter and, to me, more economically startling: it produced proofs for ten mathematics and theoretical computer science problems that had sat unsolved for decades, and it did it for a reported few thousand dollars of compute…

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  1. 2026-09-18 06:43 · DEV Community — AI
    Astra Solved 10 Decades-Old Problems on a Rounding Error of Compute. The Real Story Is the Cost Curve.

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