AI solves Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize; OpenAI's next model a generation past Astra in a week
TheZvi · x · 2026-09-13
Zvi analyzes the claim that AI has cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, the first Millennium Prize to fall. He frames it as three stories of decreasing importance:
- Story one (most important): OpenAI's next model took just one week to get a generation ahead of Astra, and the company is proactively telling the world about the pace of AI progress — because "everyone is totally freaked out."
- Story two: genuine new progress in AI-assisted mathematical research, with a Millennium Prize solved.
- Story three: the ongoing discourse about whether rapid AI progress should inspire celebration or panic.
The author notes this should have been a mix of a positive AI-math story and another round of AI-progress alarm — "or, as we call it around here, Tuesday."
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