{"id":215719,"date":"2026-05-18T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/uc-irvine-usc-receive-2-6-million-darpa-grant-for-ai-to-drive-math-breakthroughs-uc-irvine-news\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:55:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T16:55:11","slug":"uc-irvine-usc-receive-2-6-million-darpa-grant-for-ai-to-drive-math-breakthroughs-uc-irvine-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/18\/uc-irvine-usc-receive-2-6-million-darpa-grant-for-ai-to-drive-math-breakthroughs-uc-irvine-news\/","title":{"rendered":"UC Irvine, USC receive $2.6 million DARPA grant for AI to drive math breakthroughs \u2013 UC Irvine News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uci.edu\/2026\/05\/18\/uc-irvine-usc-receive-2-6-million-darpa-grant-for-ai-to-drive-math-breakthroughs\/\">UC Irvine, USC receive $2.6 million DARPA grant for AI to drive math breakthroughs \u2013 UC Irvine News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.uci.edu\/2026\/05\/18\/uc-irvine-usc-receive-2-6-million-darpa-grant-for-ai-to-drive-math-breakthroughs\/\">https:\/\/news.uci.edu\/2026\/05\/18\/uc-irvine-usc-receive-2-6-million-darpa-grant-for-ai-to-drive-math-breakthroughs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-18 12:52:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"news.uci.edu\">news.uci.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UC Irvine and USC researchers received a $2.6 million grant from DARPA to study AI&#8217;s impact on mathematical research, focusing on its effect on mathematical discovery beyond purely solving problems.<\/li>\n<li>The three-year project aims to investigate how AI tools, such as those working in number theory, partial differential equations, and computational complexity, accelerate breakthroughs in mathematical research.<\/li>\n<li>Led by UC Irvine\u2019s Jesse Wolfson, the team includes USC\u2019s Aravind Asok and UC Irvine\u2019s Alexa McLain, and will be conducted through workshops with mathematicians working on unsolved problems.<\/li>\n<li>Unlike traditional AI assessments, this study will measure AI\u2019s effect in active research environments, specifically examining AI\u2019s productivity on open problems in contemporary mathematical research.<\/li>\n<li>The project falls under DARPA\u2019s Exponentiating Mathematics Program, which seeks to advance pure mathematics by developing AI systems to support advanced research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UC Irvine, USC receive $2.6 million DARPA grant for AI to drive math breakthroughs \u2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":215720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/news.uci.edu\/files\/2026\/05\/DARPA_AI_Grant_Photo.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":215722,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215719\/revisions\/215722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}