Sphere was released 26 years ago on this day in 1998 and made the water scary again! Video Courtesy of Warner Media 🎞 Sphere (1998) 🧠 Michael Crichton ✒ Kurt Wimmer, Stephen Hauser, Paul Attanasio 🎬 Barry Levinson 🎥 Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson, Peter Coyote, Liev Schreiber, Queen Latifah, Marga Gómez, Huey Lewis, Bernard Hocke, James Pickens Jr., Michael Keys Hall 🎵 Elliot Goldenthal | Nostalgic Nebula

In 1694, Isaac Newton posed the Kissing Number Problem — a deceptively simple question about the limits of geometry. More than three centuries later, students and collaborators from Peking University trained AI to explore high-dimensional space, uncovering new structures and advancing long-standing results. Follow the team’s journey to see how they modeled the problem, trained the system, and pushed the boundaries of sphere packing. #PKUResearch #InnovatewithPKU #PKUMaths | Peking University