AGI Needs Formal Reasoning. Carina Hong is Building it at Axiom.
There's a theorem being tested about how AI reaches general intelligence. Carina Hong's answer: through mathematics.
Carina is the founder of Axiom, and in less than a year of building, her team's AI has scored a perfect 120/120 on the Putnam mathematical competition — a test where more than 50% of brilliant undergraduates score zero. More concretely, Axiom Prover has reached 98.93% on a Lean software verification benchmark that leading alternatives solve at 11–12%.
In this conversation with Matt McIlwain, Carina explains her central thesis: that math and code are the two pillars of the…
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