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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.
- OpenAI's Navier-Stokes run used a model just 4 days into training, still unfinished — haider1 · 2026-09-09
- OpenAI's new model reportedly went from RL restart to Navier–Stokes solution in two weeks — haider1 · 2026-09-10
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.
- OpenAI's 10,000 parallel agents crack the 90-year Navier-Stokes smoothness problem in 88 hours — r0ck3t23 · 2026-09-10
- OpenAI internal model solves Navier-Stokes in 88 hours using ~10,000 coordinating agents — TheMoonMidas · 2026-09-10
- Report: OpenAI's 10,000 Agents Closed Navier-Stokes in 88 Hours, Verified in Lean — r0ck3t23 · 2026-09-10