Axiom AI swarm formalizes 15,000-page Classification proof in 24 days
Axiom reported that a swarm of AI agents, guided by mathematicians and engineers, formalized the Classification of Finite Simple Groups in Lean in 24 days. The proof spans roughly 15,000 pages across more than 500 papers by about 100 authors. Axiom's accounts put the output at roughly 38 million to 43.1 million lines of Lean code. The effort surfaced errors in the published record, including an issue in the Unbalanced Group Theorem proof, for which the agents helped develop a replacement that experts reviewed and verified.
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Axiom AI agent swarm verifies longest math proof in 24 days
An AI agent swarm developed by Axiom verified the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, described as the longest proof in history, in 24 days, according to a post on X. The swarm converted 15,000 pages across more than 500 papers into over 38 million lines of machine-verified code. The effort also uncovered 34 serious discrepancies in the published record. The post frames this as a milestone for verified AI, noting that mathematicians had built on the proof for more than 40 years without anyone being able to check it alone.
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Axiom's AI agents, guided by mathematicians and engineers, formalized the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, a proof that took roughly 100 mathematicians decades to develop. The agents produced 43.1 million lines of Lean code in 24 days, making the 15,000-page body of work computer-checkable. According to the post, the agents also found issues in published arguments and helped develop a replacement proof for the Unbalanced Group Theorem.
Read sourceAxiom's AI agent swarm formalizes 15,000-page math proof in 24 days
Axiom Math (axiommathai) reported that swarms of AI agents rewrote the longest proof in mathematics, the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, in Lean. The proof spans about 15,000 pages, 500+ papers, and roughly 100 authors, and the formalization came to about 40 million lines of Lean code, completed in 24 days while mathematicians steered the agents. Axiom said that at the start of this year, getting AxiomProver to write a correct 10,000-line Lean proof took weeks of coaxing, and the new effort formalized a problem roughly 4,000 times that size. The company credited the jump to rebuilding three layers at once: the models, the harness, and the infrastructure. The post frames the result as a milestone for verifiable AI and for formal math proof scaling like software.
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AI agents verify 15,000-page math proof in 24 days, find decades-old flaw
A swarm of AI agents used the Lean proof assistant to machine-verify the Classification of Finite Simple Groups, a 15,000-page, 500-paper proof written by 100 authors over decades. According to Axiom's count, the 24-day effort produced about 40 million lines of machine-verified proof and uncovered more than 2,000 mistakes in the published papers, most small but one inside the proof of the Unbalanced Group Theorem that had gone unnoticed for decades. The agents found a new proof for that piece, which experts reviewed and verified. Because Lean's small trusted checker validates every line independently, the AI models' potential hallucinations do not undermine the result. The agents claimed tasks, audited each other, and merged work through GitHub with proofs attached, running without a human in the loop. Axiom plans to apply the same machinery to code and chips.
Axiom says AI agents formalized 15,000-page math proof in 24 days
Axiom announced that its AI agents formalized a 15,000-page mathematical proof in just 24 days, describing it as among the largest proofs in mathematics. The proof, built by over 100 mathematicians across decades, classifies the fundamental building blocks of finite symmetry. With human guidance, the agents translated the proof into Lean, making every logical step computer-checkable and repairing errors along the way. The post frames this as AI tackling an entire interconnected body of mathematics with results others can verify, calling it a major milestone.
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