Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone
TL;DR
OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. In a blog post on Tuesday, OpenAI announced that it discovered a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem - which relates to the flow of liquid and gas - using an internal AI model more powerful than the newly released GPT-6 Astra alongside 10,000 concurrent agents.
Nauti's Take
An internal model running 10,000 concurrent agents cracking a 90-year-old problem is a real breakthrough for AI-assisted research. The open question is whether the proof survives review by working mathematicians, especially since OpenAI has kept the model private.
Researchers should study the method; everyone else should wait for peer review before treating this as settled.
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