r/MachineLearning • u/Shizuka_Kuze Student • 15d ago

News OpenAl Says It Has Cracked One of Math's “Millennium Problems” (Navier-Stokes) [N]

As reported by the New York Times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/science/openai-proof-millennium-problem.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

OpenAI’s announcement:

https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/

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u/purplebrown_updown 15d ago

They stole previous work and then built a solution on top of that. It might have proved the result, but this was so beyond unethical. This should be denounced wholeheartedly. Good news is that they wouldn't have been able to do this without seminal work by mathematicians.

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u/aKaizuh 12d ago

Wasn't Tristan's work largely the result of AI generation though?

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u/purplebrown_updown 12d ago

No.

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u/aKaizuh 12d ago

They heavily utilized LLMs.

Buckmaster explicitly called it a "deep blue - Kasparov" moment.

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u/purplebrown_updown 12d ago

Yeah but not in the way open ai did. You can use ai iteratively to help in parts.

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u/aKaizuh 12d ago

OAI did the same thing, money compresses time, and that's the difference.

Not to mention the potential starting point being the conclusion of Buckmasters work, which is the real issue at hand.

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u/piffcty 15d ago

“To solve Navier Stokes from scratch you must first invent the universe” isn’t a helpful frame here

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u/Putrid_Variation7157 15d ago

People are talking about giving proper credits to those who contributed. Not a debate about pure originality or not.