Rumor: OpenAI may have cracked Navier-Stokes, with human mathematicians laying years of groundwork

LucaAmb · x · 2026-09-09

An unverified rumor claims OpenAI may have solved Navier-Stokes, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, with an announcement possibly imminent.

Important context from the thread: the result reportedly builds on years of work by Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa developing the underlying approach, with Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge then using LLMs to push the research much further and formalize and verify the result — human math groundwork amplified by LLMs.

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