
MTS @AnthropicAI | Prev: CS PhD @UCLA, Bachelors @IITDelhi, Intern @MetaAI FAIR, @GoogleDeepMind @AmazonScience
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Finally defended my Ph.D. thesis! 🥳
A very warm thank you to my family, friends, and advisors — @kaiwei_chang, @adityagrover_, @VioletNPeng, and Hongjing Lu.
Next, I will be joining @AnthropicAI as a Member of Technical Staff.
My defense slides ⬇️
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Checking that a major mathematical proof is correct can take years. Formalization—converting the mathematical reasoning into a form computer proof assistants like Lean can verify—can help.
Last month, Claude completed the first formalized proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem, one of the most famous theorems of all time. This was a project experts thought would take many years. It is the largest Lean proof ever written.
Fermat’s Last Theorem was first proven in 1995 by Sir Andrew Wiles, more than 350 years after it was conjectured. Our proof, which totals over 13 million lines of code, provides machine verification. More importantly, it proves over 29,000 other theorems that the proof requires, across many areas of math which had never before been formalized.
We see this as a major step in the long process of firming up the core of mathematical knowledge, building on work from three centuries of mathematicians and hundreds of contributors to Lean and Mathlib. We are optimistic that AI-assisted verification of mathematical proofs will help reduce the burden of refereeing mathematics in an era where more proofs are being produced than ever before.
You can read about the process on our Science Blog: anthropic.com/research/forma…
And see the complete proof on GitHub: github.com/anthropics/fermat…
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Our paper got accepted to EMNLP 2026 Findings!
Preprint: arxiv.org/pdf/2604.08477 🌻🌻
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There’s been a lot of speculation about where we stand on open-weights models. We’ve outlined our views in full here: anthropic.com/news/position-…
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Since June 12, we’ve been working closely with the US government to restore access to Claude Mythos 5 and Fable 5. Today, the government notified us that Mythos 5, our strongest cybersecurity model, can be redeployed to a set of US organizations that operate and defend critical infrastructure.
We’re restoring access for these organizations quickly, and we’re continuing to work with the government to expand access to Mythos 5 and make Fable 5 available for general use again.
Introducing Claude Tag, a new way for teams to work with Claude.
In Slack, Claude joins as a team member with access to the channels and tools you choose. Tag Claude in and delegate tasks to it while you focus on other work.
Releasing a model this capable comes with risks. Without safeguards, Fable 5’s capabilities in areas like cybersecurity could be misused to cause serious damage.
Queries on a narrow range of topics will instead receive a response from our next-most-capable model, Opus 4.8.
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Embodied agents are getting better at reasoning… but they still make surprisingly brittle mistakes.
A robot that can “bring me a banana”
may completely fail at: “bring me a yellow curved fruit.”
Why?
Because current agents usually commit to the first action they come up with.
We introduce VeGAS: Verifier-Guided Action Selection for embodied agents. 🤖
Instead of acting immediately, the agent:
• samples multiple candidate actions
• verifies them
• executes the best one
Accepted as a #CVPR 2026 Findings paper.
🧵
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We've raised $65 billion in Series H funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, led by @AltimeterCap, Dragoneer, @Greenoaks, and @sequoia.
This investment will help us advance our research and expand our capacity to meet growing demand for Claude.
Introducing Claude Opus 4.8: it builds on Opus 4.7 with sharper judgment, more honesty about its own progress, and the ability to work independently for longer than its predecessors.
Available today at the same price.
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We’re expanding our partnership with @SpaceX, and will be scaling up on GB200 capacity in Colossus 2 throughout June.
Appreciate @elonmusk and the team helping us find good homes for the Claudes.
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Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.
We’ve agreed to a partnership with @SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity.
This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.












