European Math Society hails OpenAI's Navier–Stokes solution, flags closed-model access concern
i_dg23 · x · 2026-09-11
The European Mathematical Society (EMS) published an official statement on OpenAI's announced solution to the Navier–Stokes Millennium Problem, calling it "a milestone in the history of mathematics."
Key points:
- Though authored by OpenAI, the paper explicitly credits it as a collaboration between mathematicians and AI models.
- The solution did not appear from nowhere: it builds on strategies by mathematicians Córdoba, Martínez-Zoroa and Jen (references [6-8] of OpenAI's paper), plus recent progress by Anthropic's Alpoge and NYU's Buckmaster. OpenAI clearly "stood on the shoulders of giants," yet the speed at which its team and machines reached the solution is remarkable.
- In a new world of human–machine co-created mathematics, questions of authorship and credit will need to be resolved.
- A concern: the model used is internal to OpenAI and not publicly accessible — a serious issue for open science and equal opportunity in research, which the math community must address.
EMS concludes that, without minimizing these difficulties, the achievement deserves admiration and celebration.
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