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OpenAI Says It Has Cracked One of Math’s ‘Millennium Problems’

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OpenAI claims AI solved Navier-Stokes millennium prize problem amid credit controversy

OpenAI announced its AI generated a solution to the 200-year-old Navier-Stokes equations, one of seven millennium prize problems in mathematics. NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges an OpenAI researcher pressured him to drop an Anthropic co-author from related work, raising questions about unpublished research by outside mathematicians.

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OpenAI claims AI solved Navier-Stokes millennium prize problem amid credit controversy
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