Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
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On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem introduces an impressive result from OpenAI, who used an unreleased model to produce a resolution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem , one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems that have been subject to a $1,000,000 prize since May 2…
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- 2026-09-11 08:13 · r/singularity
The Guy Who Broke the Anthropic Millennium Prize Story Says OpenAI Is Now Using Its Navier–Stokes Model on Riemann and P vs NP - 2026-09-10 16:24 · r/singularity
Big news is that OpenAI is nearing solving another millennium prize, but OpenAI now saying categorically it’s impossible that Levent/Buckmaster’s recent codex usage influenced their model’s output - 2026-09-10 16:05 · r/singularity
In its Wednesday night statement, OpenAI said: "In addition, since the completion of Navier-Stokes, we have made substantial progress on another Millennium Prize problem. We are working through how to share these results thoughtfully." - 2026-09-10 00:48 · r/antiai
OpenAI stole credit for solving the Navier Stokes Millennium problem. This is the peak (so far) of ai theft of ideas. - 2026-09-09 16:25 · r/learnmachinelearning
OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents worked for 88 hours to solve Navier–Stokes - 2026-09-09 05:04 · Latent Space
[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 - 2026-09-08 23:55 · Simon Willison's Weblog
Some thoughts on the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem