Mathematician Tony Feng: AI's Navier-Stokes win was technical execution, not new concepts
littmath · x · 2026-09-12
Mathematician Tony Feng comments on the AI resolution of Navier-Stokes: experts believe the conceptual program underlying the solution was already in place, with AI's contribution being an intricate technical execution — an axis where AI is already superhuman, but never before demonstrated so dramatically. He notes many problems remain out of reach regardless of inference-time compute.
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