AlphaEvolve cracks a new record on the matrix multiplication exponent
A team improved the long-contested matrix multiplication exponent to ω < 2.371177, shaving the prior best bound of 2.371339. The trick: reframe the laser-method optimization problem, then let a bespoke ML optimizer refined by AlphaEvolve hunt for the answer. Small on paper, but it is fresh proof that AI now steers frontier math, not just verifies it.