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Sep 8, 2026

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alleges an OpenAI researcher pressured him to drop an Anthropic co-author from related work, raising questions about unpublished research by outside mathematicians.

Sep 8, 2026·7 sources
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  • ▪OpenAI stated that it does not intend to claim the $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute for its Navier-Stokes solution
  • ▪OpenAI stated that its unreleased internal model solves nearly three times as many open mathematics problems as GPT-6 Astra, with the performance gap widening as compute scales up
  • ▪OpenAI's week-long mathematical research effort consumed 300 billion output tokens, which would equal $22.5 million worth of compute if charged at current GPT-6 Astra rates

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