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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

OpenAI says an unreleased model produced a claimed solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, disputed by an NYU mathematician.

OpenAI used an unreleased model to produce a claimed solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems carrying a $1,000,000 prize since May 24, 2000. The result is contested: NYU mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster accused collaborators of skulduggery and rushed out his own competing results with mathematician Levent Alpoge, who works at Anthropic. The dispute is documented in a published PDF describing the competing claims.

Simon Willison · 8d agoAI research

[AINews] OpenAI reports Navier-Stokes singularity find in 88 hours using Astra-next, roughly 10,000 agents and 130B tokens (>$40M), a contender for second ever Millennium Prize awarded

OpenAI-linked accounts claim roughly 10,000 AI agents produced a Navier-Stokes singularity result in 88 hours, pending mathematical verification.

OpenAI-affiliated accounts claim a system of roughly 10,000 agents, trained over about a year with multi-agent reinforcement learning, produced a finite-time singularity result related to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem. The claimed 88-hour runtime and 130B-token cost circulate only via social posts, and no preprint, theorem statement, or proof artifact is available. Acceptance by the mathematics community is unresolved, so the claim's epistemic status remains unknown. The roundup also notes Cognition's $48B and Mistral's $24B fundraises, GPT Image 2.5, and Meta's Muse agent relaunch.

Latent Space · 8d agoAI research1