Vitalik Praises Qwen 35B: Parsing Willans Formula in 3 Minutes Demonstrates AI's Mathematical Reasoning Ability

Ethereum founder Vitalik Buterin recently praised the Qwen 35B model, stating that it can parse the Willans formula on a laptop in less than 3 minutes using 15,000 tokens. The Willans formula is a theoretical prime number generation method, often regarded as a theoretical curiosity due to its high computational complexity.

Qwen's performance not only demonstrates AI's breakthrough in symbolic reasoning and complex mathematical structure processing but also hints at the technical potential of embedding discrete operations (like modular arithmetic) into continuous functions—this is of great significance for cryptographic fields such as homomorphic encryption and zero-knowledge proofs, helping to optimize operation processing in neural networks or cryptographic protocols.