Rumor: AI companies sitting on major problem solutions after hostile Navier-Stokes proof reaction
ctjlewis · x · 2026-09-16
Unconfirmed industry rumor via @letonyo: AI companies, burned by the hostile public reaction to their Navier-Stokes proof, are reportedly holding back solutions to several major open problems until they figure out a better way to release them.
If true, this implies two things: frontier models may already have substantive breakthroughs on major mathematical problems, and labs are now suppressing results over PR risk — which would significantly slow the visible pace of AI for Science.
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