🚨 AI just cracked a 50-year-old physics problem in a few prompts.

Here’s the story 👇

Back in the 1970s, physicists got stuck on the J1–J2 Potts model — a math-heavy puzzle used to understand frustrated magnets and atomic stacking. It was only solved for the easiest case (q = 2). Once it hit q = 3? Total chaos.

Until now.

Physicist Weiguo Yin teamed up with OpenAI’s o3-mini-high, a reasoning model. Together, they shrunk a 9×9 mathematical beast into a 2×2 clean result — and solved it exactly.

Why this matters:

🧲 Helps us understand complex materials ⚡ May unlock new superconductors 🏗️ Can improve how we design atomic-level tech

Physics problem: decades unsolved AI + symmetry: exact solution Real-world impact: massive

If AI can do this in physics... what else are we still sleeping on?

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