OpenAI claims Navier-Stokes solve amid credit fight — SkimNews
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- OpenAI announced an internal model "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" produced a proof that the three-dimensional Navier–Stokes equations can develop a singularity in finite time
- OpenAI says roughly 10,000 concurrent AI agents worked on the problem starting Sept. 1, reaching the result in about 88 hours
- OpenAI executives told reporters the compute cost ran into the "millions of dollars" and that the effort began after rumors spread that two Millennium Prize problems had been solved
- NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster publicly questioned whether OpenAI raced down a research direction learned from his unpublished fluid-dynamics work with Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge
- OpenAI chief research officer Mark Chen denied the allegations on a reporter call: "No people or AI systems searched through user data to solve this problem"
- OpenAI says it does not intend to claim the $1 million Millennium Prize, framing the result instead as evidence of how quickly its frontier models are advancing
Why it matters: This puts a $1 million credibility test on AI-assisted science: Buckmaster publicly questioned whether OpenAI's model — "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra" — raced down a research direction learned from his unpublished work with Anthropic's Alpöge, and OpenAI's categorical denial is now on the record for the entire frontier-AI research community to litigate.
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