Solving a Millennium Prize Problem is an AlphaGo moment for math, says Yuchen Jin
Yuchenj_UW · x · 2026-09-09
Reacting to OpenAI's claim that a next-gen model more capable than GPT-6 Astra solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem via a group of agents, Yuchen Jin calls it "an AlphaGo moment for math." He highlights jagged intelligence: AI is now smarter than a math PhD yet dumber than an intern on many tasks — an imbalance that needs solving.
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