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Anthropic and Theorem use Claude to formally verify existing software under narrow conditions

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Anthropic and Theorem used Claude to formally verify existing software, generating roughly 180 million lines of mathematical proof code in a few weeks from test programs across 123 open-source libraries in Google’s OSS-Fuzz project. Rocq independently checked the proofs, and Anthropic said the process uncovered hundreds of bugs with almost no human review. The guarantees apply only to a specific processor architecture, single-threaded programs, and inputs under 64 MB. Individual proofs consumed hundreds of millions of tokens, making the computational cost and narrow scope central limits of the work.

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    Anthropic uses Claude to formally verify existing code under strict conditions

    Anthropic and Theorem used Claude to verify existing software, producing roughly 180 million lines of mathematical proof code in a few weeks from test programs across 123 open-source libraries in Google's OSS-Fuzz project. Rocq independently checked the proofs, and Anthropic says the process uncovered hundreds of bugs with almost no human review. The guarantees apply only to a specific processor architecture, single-threaded programs, and inputs under 64 MB, while individual proofs consumed hundreds of millions of tokens.

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