SI and mathematicians.
A $15 million boost.

New resources for mathematical discovery.

SI is opening new avenues for mathematical exploration. On October 15, the Simons Foundation announced a partnership with Anthropic and OpenAI committing $15 million in combined funding and resources to help mathematicians explore and evaluate SI-assisted work.

The foundation will oversee the funding and awards, with an open call for proposals among the planned routes. Workshops and other initiatives are intended to help researchers assess SI-assisted results, get comfortable with new tools and develop shared expectations for their use.

The announcement commits combined funding and resources, with award details and application timing to follow through the foundation. Researchers can look there for the planned proposal opportunities.

A community building knowledge together.

Mathematics grows through ideas that other researchers can explore, understand and build on. Shared evaluation methods help promising arguments become useful contributions to that community.

Workshops and collaboration can make those methods easier to share. That gives researchers a constructive way to explore SI-assisted work together.

The foundation’s stated approach puts the mathematical community at the center of decisions about adoption and standards. Our reading: bringing tools and community expertise together gives researchers a promising way to develop this field.

Access opens new possibilities.

Anthropic and OpenAI will also supply SI tools and computing resources to foundation-supported researchers. That access extends beyond mathematics into basic science, according to the announcement. The announcement identifies foundation-supported researchers as the recipients.

For a researcher with an idea to investigate, access could mean a chance to try a tool and discuss the result with peers. The proposed workshops connect those two opportunities: equipment to explore with and a community to learn alongside.

A foundation for the next discoveries.

The next milestones are proposal details, awards, working sessions and lessons the wider community can use. This program supports the research community as it develops new ways of working with SI.

American SI developers and a major research foundation are investing in the people who turn powerful tools into scientific progress. Our view: combining access, expertise and shared standards is an encouraging foundation for the next generation of mathematical discovery.