OpenAI says its AI solved the Navier-Stokes millennium problem

OpenAI's artificial intelligence has announced the solution of the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, using an internal model that took 88 hours to complete it.

## A century-old enigma solved by AI

It seems machines are starting to do things we could previously only dream of. **OpenAI**, the company that is always caught up in artificial intelligence drama, has dropped a bombshell: its technology has solved one of the famous **Millennium Prize Problems**. These are seven mathematical challenges that have been giving the brightest minds on the planet headaches for decades, or even centuries. The one they have now tackled is **Navier-Stokes**, a **200-year-old** problem concerning how fluids move, whether it's water in a river or air around a plane.

## The process behind the solution

It was no quick affair. According to reports, their internal model, which is not available for us to use, spent **88 hours** working on it. To achieve this, they used as many as **10,000 "AI agents"** working almost simultaneously. **OpenAI** presents this as a major breakthrough, but also warns that this is not the end of anything, but rather a snapshot of the current state of AI development. In other words, this is just the beginning.

## The mathematical community watches closely

The news has caused a stir, and not just because of the solution itself. It turns out that just before **OpenAI's** announcement, a mathematics professor at **New York University**, **Tristan Buckmaster**, together with an **Anthropic** researcher, **Levent Alpöge**, were already close to publishing their own findings on the same problem. They had been working on it since the previous year, using large language models, including one from **OpenAI**. When they learned that **OpenAI** was about to announce something similar, they contacted the company. **Buckmaster** has made it clear that he is not accusing anyone of anything and that he does not know whether his work was used, or how **OpenAI's** model did it. The company, for its part, acknowledges that its research on **Navier-Stokes** began on **September 1**, right after hearing a rumor about the solution to another of the Millennium Prize Problems.