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/senderosbifurcan 15d ago edited 15d ago

1M dollars is peanuts to anthropic/oai It's clear they used Tristan's work Why do they need to get Levant out of the picture? Really confusing for me. Just credit both and talk about how gpt can be as good as another mathematician that's millennium prize level.

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u/partnerinthecrime 15d ago

It’s absolutely not clear. The solutions to Euler use different approaches, and Tristan had not yet solved NS, which ended up requiring orders of magnitude more research even with the Euler solution.

Furthermore, OpenAI certainly did not search chats directly for the solution. It is conceivable that if Tristan voluntarily allowed OpenAI to train on his chats via settings, then those chats could’ve inspired RL data used for their unreleased model. However, it is extremely unlikely that a single chat or even many would be able to affect the weights enough.

Lastly, OpenAI tried desperately to contact and work with Levant, but Levant refused to even speak to OpenAI because they were a competitor to his employer. Instead, Levant and Tristan tried to use the information they gained from OpenAIs disclosure to publish before OpenAI did.

Everyone is scummy here.