10,000 OpenAI agents crack Navier-Stokes, resolving a Millennium Prize Problem
fortnow · x · 2026-09-11
Quanta Magazine reports that OpenAI mathematicians announced this week that 10,000 autonomous AI agents under their direction found a "singularity" in the Navier-Stokes equations, resolving one of the six remaining Millennium Prize Problems — potentially a major shift for math research, though credit attribution proved controversial.
In the same week, a large language model found a complex structure on the six-dimensional sphere S6, an object that has eluded mathematicians since 1947. Quanta has launched "Transformation," a weekly newsletter on math and AI by Konstantin Kakaes, to track these developments.
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