Another major scientific breakthrough from Anthropic/Claude.
The age of autonomous scientific discovery is here.
Claude just one shotted a frontier theoretical physics calculation 👀
Claude autonomously computed a nine loop scattering amplitude in N=4 super Yang-Mills, a frontier calculation that top physicists had been working toward and that was considered too difficult to attack directly.
It used established physics methods, wrote the necessary code from scratch, ran the computation in two different ways, and reached a result that was independently validated.
It required almost no scientific hand holding beyond essentially "keep working."
The full run would have cost an end user only around $1,000-$2,000, and the author describes it as a major jump from AI doing student like physics projects earlier this year to autonomously completing real frontier research.