Two Millennium problems may be solved, yet neither may earn the prize money
nrehiew_ · x · 2026-09-09
nrehiew points out an irony: two Millennium Prize problems may now be solved, yet in both cases the Clay Institute's prize money is unlikely to be paid out. He asks what it says about the type of intelligence involved when problems get solved outside academia's paper-and-peer-review pipeline, in a nod to rumors that an Anthropic model tackled P vs NP.
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