A Millennium Prize Problem, two AI labs, and a credit fight over Navier-Stokes
thursdai_pod · x · 2026-09-16
On the ThursdAI podcast, @altryne breaks down a credit fight: after a rumor that independent researchers (one from Anthropic) were close to solving Navier-Stokes — a Clay Millennium Prize Problem — OpenAI was allegedly racing to solve it too. The core question: when a breakthrough is at stake, who gets the credit? Allegations are unconfirmed rumors.
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