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OpenAI just wants to win

AchievementModelSep 12, 2026

OpenAI says it found a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem using roughly 10,000 agents, tens of millions of dollars of compute, and 88 hours. The Verge spoke with more than a dozen mathematicians, including Tristan Buckmaster and Andreas Thom, who describe a field unsettled by OpenAI's conduct. Buckmaster accused OpenAI of failing to explain whether his Codex use contributed to its result; OpenAI categorically denied his prompts influenced the system.

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Canonical: https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/994255/openai-millennium-prize-problem-tristan-buckmaster-competition