Mathematician Elliot Glazer debunks AI math rumors: Anthropic Millennium Problem claim 'almost certainly false'
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-23
Mathematician Elliot Glazer says he became the unofficial fact-checker for AI math rumors because he isn't under any frontier lab NDA. The original rumor that Anthropic solved two Millennium Problems is "almost certainly false" with basically no evidence; it morphed into a claim that OpenAI ran 10,000 agents for 48 hours to solve Navier-Stokes. He traces how rumor-mongers kept being specifically wrong yet still read as vindicated.
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