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  "title": "OpenAl Says It Has Cracked One of Math's “Millennium Problems” (Navier-Stokes) [N]",
  "url": "https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1wavdi7/openal_says_it_has_cracked_one_of_maths/",
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  "upload_date": "20260908",
  "published_at": "2026-09-08T17:42:57+00:00",
  "transcript": "As reported by the New York Times:\n\nhttps://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/science/openai-proof-millennium-problem.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share\n\nOpenAI’s announcement:\n\nhttps://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/\n\n\n\n--- Top Comments ---\n\n\n[610 upvotes] Drama/accusation summary:\n\n- Aug 15th: Tristan Buckmaster & Levent Alpöge make progress on a few important math problems, \"finite-time blowup with smooth forcing for incompressible porous media, for Boussinesq, and for 3d incompressible Euler.\"\n\n- they do NOT have a proof for the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize problem. BUT, they do claim to have a proof for a similar (non-Millenium) Navier Stokes problem that could help lead the way there\n\n- Levent works at Anthropic, but this research was independent of his work there, with a mix of GPT and Claude models. Tristan is not related to Anthropic.\n\n- Early Sep: Rumor spreads to OpenAI that Anthropic solved a major problem. Tristan emails OpenAI to clarify, without revealing the problem they solved or how they did it.\n\n- After hearing of the rumor, OpenAI started researching Navier Stokes with a new internal model.\n\n- Sep 6th: OpenAI's Sebastien Bubeck tells Tristan that they solved the $1,000,000 Millenium Prize Navier Stokes problem. The approach is very similar to Tristan & Levent's approach to the non-Millenium problem.\n\n- Tristan is suspicious of the timing, as only few others were trying this approach. OpenAI says the model didn't acce\n\n[208 upvotes] There is howeverpossibility that OpenAI used some unpublished work from other researchers, even though they have claimed otherwise in the announcement:\n\nhttps://cims.nyu.edu/\\~tristanb/statement.pdf\n\n[141 upvotes] the level of theft lying and threats against mathemeticians involved really suggests openai is toast",
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