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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades: Company behind ChatGPT says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours (openai.com)
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The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of 7 Millennium Prize Problems published by the Clay Mathematics Institute to highlight some of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the field.

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[–] 58 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No, OpenAI heard about a pair of researchers who were getting close to solving the problem and spent $22M on compute power to scoop them.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/

Even more concerningly, the researchers had been using OpenAI's codex model in their earlier work, meaning that OpenAI's model may have literally directly trained from and ripped off their work.

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  • [–] 33 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Even more concerning they said they’d credit one of the authors if he wrote out a different author he collaborated with that worked at Anthropic, and refused to say they didn’t train the model on his active research.

    If you’re innocent you don’t do that.

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