OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved Navier-Stokes in 88 hours

OpenAI released a 165-page paper and Lean files, while Clay still lists the $1M Millennium Problem as unsolved.

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A valid proof would mark a step from AI-assisted mathematics to AI-generated frontier research, while the 10,000-agent run shows the compute bill behind that leap.

OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved Navier-Stokes in 88 hours

OpenAI said Tuesday that an unreleased model and roughly 10,000 coordinating AI agents produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, a claim that would rank among the most consequential results yet attributed to an AI system.…

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