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Precise statement
The kissing number in 19 dimensions is at least 11948, improving the Cohn-Li bound by 256, via a binary code of length 19 and minimum distance 5 fed through the Cohn-Li odd-sign construction.
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What AI did
GPT-5.4 Pro
"GPT-5.4 Pro was used in the discovery of the construction and in revising the exposition." The verifying computation is a finite check with public scripts and explicit coordinates for the 11948-point configuration.