OpenAI Claims AI Agents Solved Navier-Stokes Problem in Record Time
OpenAI announced that its system of 10,000 coordinating agents solved the long-standing Navier-Stokes mathematics problem within 88 hours. The company used an internal AI model and tools such as internet access and code execution to achieve this result. OpenAI stated that the solution was reached on September 5 after launching the first agents on September 1. The claim has drawn skepticism from Tristan Buckmaster, a professor at New York University who is collaborating with Levent Alpöge of Anthropic on Navier-Stokes research. Buckmaster suggested there may be similarities between OpenAI's approach and their ongoing work but emphasized that he had not seen the proof or how it was achieved. The Clay Mathematics Institute has yet to comment, as the problem remains one of seven Millennium Prize Problems with a $1 million reward for its solution.
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