OpenAI claims AI cracked Navier-Stokes; Gary Marcus accuses it of ripping off human mathematicians
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-09
- OpenAI announced a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, unresolved for 90 years, produced by a group of agents running on a next-gen model it says is significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra.
- Gary Marcus slammed the announcement: the tweet gave no credit to the human mathematicians OpenAI communicated with and may have ripped off, calling it "absolutely disgusting" and linking an analysis of what OpenAI did not admit.
- The event is both a potential capability milestone and a growing academic-ethics controversy.
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