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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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    • [–] 15 points 2 months ago

    Scam Altman lied once again.

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    [–] -4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Guys, please do not downvote this post just because you do not agree who actually solved this problem. The title of the post is correct, unbiased. It says that it's OpenAI that claim to solve this problem. It doesn't say that OpenAI has indeed solved this.

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    [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    That probably means that 1.000.000 AI systems can crack 100 Navier-Stokes problems in 88 hours. ChatGPT, now calculate how many women are needed to generate a baby in 10 seconds.

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