Anima Anandkumar: neural operators cracked real-world turbulence where LLM proofs fall short
AnimaAnandkumar · x · 2026-09-08
Reacting to news that a Millennium-prize-scale turbulence problem has seen real progress, Caltech professor Anima Anandkumar argues her physics-centric approach with neural operators has already worked on real-world turbulence across weather, fusion and more. She contrasts this with LLM-centric approaches that merely operate in the symbolic realm for proofs, implying the breakthrough belongs to the physics-driven neural operator lineage rather than language-model reasoning.
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