OpenAI: 10,000 AI agents produced a Navier–Stokes solution in 88 hours, sparking credit dispute

Wes Roth · youtube · 2026-09-09

OpenAI announced that 10,000 AI agents produced a proposed solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem in just 88 hours, with Lean formalizations open-sourced. Mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge dispute credit and timelines, while Sam Altman and Sébastien Bubeck defended the work. The video breaks down the math, the training-data questions, and what this means for AI-driven scientific discovery.

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