Rumor of a Millennium Prize solution led OpenAI to try — and Navier-Stokes got solved

archit_sharma97 · x · 2026-09-09

The author jokes about a dramatic chain of events: rumors that a Millennium Prize problem had been solved prompted OpenAI to actually try it — and the Navier-Stokes problem ended up actually being solved. A case of "willing things into existence," as the author puts it.

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