Millennium Prize pays $1M — about two weeks of OpenAI stock bonuses, quips AI researcher
granawkins · x · 2026-09-09
Reacting to OpenAI's AI-assisted Navier-Stokes breakthrough, yacineMTB joked that the Millennium Prize's $1M award is "like the biweekly stock bonus at OpenAI," prompting a reply invoking economist Eric Weinstein — a snapshot of the gap between Big Tech AI pay and math's highest honor.
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