Long before becoming China’s first two Fields Medal winners, Hong Wang and Yu Deng were curious children whose fascination with mathematics began through puzzles, books and family encouragement.

As the men’s soccer World Cup wound down this summer, another international competition with elite players and national pride on the line was getting underway: the International Congress of ...

Russian-born mathematician Yurii Nesterov, now a professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, China, has won the Carl Friedrich Gauss Prize for research that helped lay the foundation for modern ...

Winning one of the world’s most prestigious math prizes has made Hong Wang a household name in her native China. The fact she was awarded the 2026 Fields Medal for work she did in the United States ...

Woongjin ThinkBig announced on the 24th that it held the “2026 First Half Woongjin ThinkBig Math Competition.” The ...

Tencent Hy4 preview uses a recursive self-improvement loop that boosted its own inference throughput by 31.8%. The ...

Such a vision came from an AI-powered guide sign designed by Qin Zi'ang and Wang Hansen, two eighth-graders from east China's Jiangsu Province. The pair made it to the finals of a national youth ...

That was the day OpenAI announced a new sort of bot, known as a “reasoning model,” that was trained to complete challenging tasks that took long periods of time—the very sorts of science, math, and ...

Wei's venture into supplementary education prompts criticism that he is profiting from his fame at the expense of his ...

IBM has released Granite 4.2, its first family of dense, decoder-only reasoning language models, in three sizes: 3B, 8B, and ...