OpenAI Claims It Solved the Navier–Stokes Millennium Problem, Progress on Another
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-09-11
OpenAI told the New York Times it has completed a solution to the Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem and has made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize Problem, saying it is working out how to share the results. Of the seven $1M Millennium Problems, only the Poincaré Conjecture had been solved (by Grigori Perelman).
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