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OpenAI's 10,000 Agents Tackle a Millennium Problem in 88 Hours

OpenAI reportedly used ~10,000 collaborating agents over 88 hours to attack the Navier-Stokes millennium problem, with follow-up leaks revealing the internal model had trained for only 4 days before the run.

2026-09-09 ~ 2026-09-10 · 2 episodes · 5 posts

Episode 1 · OpenAI's Navier-Stokes Model Trained Only Days Before 88-Hour Run (2026-09-09, 2 posts)

OpenAI's Navier-Stokes breakthrough reportedly started an 88-hour solve with a model trained only four days, after RL training restarted on Aug 28 and improved checkpoints were swapped in days later.

Episode 2 · OpenAI's 10,000 Agents Solve Navier–Stokes in 88 Hours (2026-09-10, 3 posts)

OpenAI says an internal model still in training used roughly 10,000 collaborating agents to solve the 90-year-old Navier–Stokes smoothness millennium problem in 88 hours, achieving step-change gains across multiple benchmarks.