Gossip: Anthropic May Have Solved Navier-Stokes With AI, Unconfirmed

iskander · x · 2026-09-05

Unconfirmed gossip claims Anthropic may have found a solution to Navier-Stokes, a famous Millennium Prize problem. The source is Elliot, whose instincts on frontier AI math capabilities have been accurate before, based on experience with Anthropic's math model Astra. Author iskander notes that after trying Astra, it's imaginable many famous math problems fall to AI proofs within 2-3 years — raising the question of whether mathematicians will move to newer, harder formal systems.

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