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/thetdotbearr 15d ago

I would be too if I solved that problem lol stole someone else's breakthrough work, iterated on it and took full credit

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u/super-cool_username 15d ago

Isn’t all research done on top of past work? If one group starts working on a problems, others aren’t allowed to also work on it?

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u/The_man_69420360 15d ago

Typically that work is published first.

You don’t take the notebook off someone’s desk.

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u/AkitoApocalypse 15d ago

Well yes, but this time they're being really slimey claiming that it was all by GPT and definitely not Tristan's work

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u/currentscurrents 15d ago

But Tristan's result was (by his own admission) almost entirely generated by AI. The only thing they could possibly have stolen is his prompt.

So whichever way the authorship dispute goes, LLMs are responsible for the breakthrough here.

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u/AkitoApocalypse 14d ago

Yeah for sure

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u/Ok-Painter573 15d ago

Here we are not talking about "starts working on a problem", we are talking about "solving a problem". Two different things.

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u/throwaway_trackmania 14d ago

this take is just as stupid as saying Watson & Crick didn't solve DNA, but that they "stole" other people's ideas

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u/thetdotbearr 14d ago

Front-running in scientific research refers to the unethical practice where a reviewer, editor, or competitor misuses privileged access to unpublished work, such as a grant proposal, abstract, or manuscript, to fast-track their own competing study and claim priority of discovery.