OpenAI Claims Another Huge Mathematical Result Amid Fights Over Credit, Ethics, and Privacy
OpenAI said its experimental model solved the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours, but mathematicians questioned whether unpublished human work shaped the result.
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OpenAI Claims Breakthrough in Navier-Stokes Equation, but NYU Mathematician Alleges His Work Was Copied
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster asserts OpenAI cribbed the work he and a collaborator had done, which included significant progress toward solving the equation in August. OpenAI announced its team had solved the equation this week.
As OpenAI claimed to have solved a mathematical problem that had remained unsolved for about 90 years using artificial intelligence (AI), Fields Medal winners, the most prestigious in the field of mathematics, expressed concern over the competition among AI companies to solve unsolved mathematical problems.
The company presents a 166 page demonstration that points to a possible singularity in the three-dimensional equations of Navier-Stokes
The solution of one of the most important mathematical problems caused by an AI model raises questions. Some have been asking themselves for months. But now there is a new one: do the algorithms steal from human mathematicians?
On September 8, 2026, OpenAI announced in its X account a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, one of the seven “mathematical problems of the millennium”, whose resolution would be awarded by the Clay Mathematicas Institute with the sum of one million dollars.
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