Daniel Litt

mathematician at the University of Toronto

  1. The goal of mathematics is not to produce mathematics papers, it's to produce some kind of understanding. Maybe some of that understanding resides in model weights. To me, that's like pretty unsatisfying.
    Daniel Litt · The a16z Show · Daniel Litt: The Mathematician's Guide to AI · 2026-09-01
  2. My favorite fully autonomous result by an AI so far is the solution to the Erdős unit distance problem.
    Daniel Litt · The a16z Show · Daniel Litt: The Mathematician's Guide to AI · 2026-09-01
  3. A lot of progress in mathematics comes from like letting, you know, a thousand different flowers bloom and people pursue their own curiosity. And then, you know, the boundaries of knowledge expand in some kind of fairly uniform way.
    Daniel Litt · The a16z Show · Daniel Litt: The Mathematician's Guide to AI · 2026-09-01