AMS confirms OpenAI mathematicians completed final steps on the Navier–Stokes problem
RexDouglass · x · 2026-09-09
The American Mathematical Society, in a statement by president Ravi Vakil and CEO John Meier, confirmed a milestone advance on the Navier–Stokes problem.
- The problem traces back to Navier, Stokes, Leray, and Ladyzhenskaya
- The breakthrough chain: recent work by Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa → advances by Alpöge and Buckmaster assisted by new technologies → final steps by OpenAI mathematicians
- AMS calls the achievement and its process a long-lasting contribution to human understanding
If confirmed, this would mark AI's first substantive contribution to a top-tier open problem in mathematics.
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