AI labs keep 'solving' Millennium Problems: Clay Institute meme goes viral

soumitrashukla9 · x · 2026-09-14

A viral AI-math meme: the Clay Institute supposedly said AI labs keep solving Millennium Problems and just pick new ones off arXiv, prompting jokes that the Institute is 'feeding' problems to labs and that Terence Tao started crying. The quoted post suggests promoting the Collatz conjecture to fill the vacancies.

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