A world record in math stood for 36 years. Humans chipped at it in increments of 0.0001. An AI just beat it by 25 times every gain since 1990 combined. The record is omega, the matrix multiplication exponent. It sets the theoretical speed limit on multiplying matrices, the operation underneath basically everything a computer does. Every ChatGPT answer, every video game frame, every physics simulation comes down to matrix multiplies. In 1969 Strassen got the exponent down to 2.81. Coppersmith…