Claude 3.5 Solves 87-Year-Old Jacobian Conjecture on July 21, Sparks AI vs. Crypto Funding Debate

According to CoinDesk, Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge announced on July 21 that Claude 3.5 found a concrete counterexample to the Jacobian conjecture, an unsolved mathematical problem posed in 1939. The breakthrough appeared in a post on X (formerly Twitter), where Alpöge—a mathematician and Harvard fellow at Anthropic—shared the specific counterexample discovered by the AI model.

The conjecture's resolution marks a milestone in AI capability, though analysts warn it may redirect investment away from crypto. As AI achieves new breakthroughs, investor capital is expected to flow increasingly toward AI sector stocks rather than cryptocurrencies, potentially creating headwinds for Bitcoin despite the asset's recent strength alongside AI-related equities.