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OpenAI Says Its AI Solved a Millennium Prize Problem
OpenAI said the internal model used 10,000 agents and millions of dollars in compute, while rival mathematicians dispute the credit.
OpenAI announced that its AI model solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem within 88 hours, surprising the mathematics community.
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused OpenAI of using unpublished work developed by him and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpoge, raising concerns about data misuse.
Buckmaster alleged that OpenAI pressured him to collaborate and proposed publishing arrangements that excluded Alpoge, claims which OpenAI has denied.
The proof of the Navier-Stokes problem has not been released, and mathematicians have expressed skepticism about its readability and validity, with formal verification expected to take years.
OpenAI's announcement of a historic mathematical breakthrough has been overshadowed by a dispute over where the idea behind the AI came from. Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster claims that OpenAI learned of its non-public process shortly before it announced the finished solution. The company denies such allegations.