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OpenAI has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium problem using $15m of AI effort

AchievementResearchSep 8, 2026

OpenAI claims an AI model has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, for which the Clay Mathematics Institute awards $1 million. The company said the unnamed model, described as more capable than GPT-6 Astra, used thousands of agents to find blow-ups in Euler and Navier-Stokes equations. OpenAI denied using work by Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge, who raised concerns about transparency; the Clay Mathematics Institute said evaluation will be unhurried and rigorous.

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