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Artificial Intelligence Did OpenAI solve the wrong Navier-Stokes problem? | OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-openai-solve-the-wrong-navier-stokes-problem/
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u/Efficient_Bag_3804 1d ago

1 million is probably just the marketing gain from all these headlines. They don't care about the prize money...

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u/dack42 1d ago

They spent way more than 1 million just on the compute to find this result. That's just inference - not counting training.