NYU Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster: OpenAI Made Zero Progress on Navier-Stokes Until They 'Learned His Name'
AlexTensor · x · 2026-10-12
NYU Courant mathematician Tristan Buckmaster quipped that OpenAI made zero progress on the Navier-Stokes problem until they "learned his name." The remark spread widely in the AI community as a pointed jab at frontier labs tackling hard mathematics.
The original post is a single line with a link, but its skepticism about AI labs' ability to crack fundamental math problems has drawn notable attention.
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