OpenAI claims agent swarm solved the 90-year-old Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem
basedjensen · x · 2026-09-09
OpenAI says a group of agents running on a next-generation model significantly more capable than "GPT-6 Astra" produced a solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, a question about whether smooth 3D fluid motion can break down that has stood for roughly 90 years.
Third-party notes from the accompanying blog add wild details:
- The model was reportedly trained starting August 28 — implying 10k agents and hundreds of billions of inference tokens for this specific problem, all within about two weeks.
- The training set is described as a "curated set of problems," yet it massively outperforms Astra.
If verified by mathematicians, this would be the first AI-produced proof at Millennium Prize level.
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