Claude completes nine-loop physics challenge

Physicist and science writer Matt von Hippel recounts issuing a theoretical physics challenge to AI companies that was solved about a month later. He wanted to see whether an LLM could make progress on a computationally hard familiar problem, and Claude's result exceeded his expectations.

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