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Did AI solve a Millennium Prize Problem?

September 8, 2026
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OpenAI has published a claim that, if it withstands scrutiny from the mathematical community, would be historic: an artificial intelligence system may have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The key phrase is “if it withstands.” Because no medal has been awarded yet, nor has a million dollars been collected. We

OpenAI has published a claim that, if it withstands scrutiny from the mathematical community, would be historic: an artificial intelligence system may have solved one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The key phrase is “if it withstands.” Because no medal has been awarded yet, nor has a million dollars been collected. We’re looking at a proposed solution that now has to survive the slowest, most demanding, and least spectacular process in science: other people trying to break it. The problem concerns the existence and smoothness of solutions to the Navier-Stokes equations in three dimensions. It sounds remote, but it describes something very tangible: how a fluid moves. Water flowing from a faucet, air around an airplane, smoke from a fire, blood flowing through an artery.

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