N-S blowup dispute: years of human groundwork allegedly scooped by OpenAI's 10k-agent run
xiaosun86 · x · 2026-09-09
A commentary on the Navier-Stokes blowup solution news: NYU's Tristan is a top expert who has used computer-assisted search since 2022, building on 15 years of human work that Tao predicted would succeed. Even if OpenAI's reported 10,000-agent run came after Tristan's announcement, the author argues it amounts to scooping—knowing his method was near the solution was itself huge information—and Tao noted the method could generalize to the full NS problem.
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