OpenAI reportedly close to cracking the Hodge Conjecture, its second Millennium Prize target
_arohan_ · x · 2026-09-19
Per The Information, OpenAI now expects to crack the Hodge Conjecture — its second Millennium Prize target — even as mathematicians are still furious about the Navier-Stokes announcement. An announcement could be delayed while the company navigates its rocky relationship with the math community. Mathematician Daniel Litt's take: superhuman AI churning out proof PDFs nobody reads is worthless — 'the singularity will arrive as a PDF attachment nobody opens.'
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