OpenAI Says AI Agents Solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Sam Altman ·

Key Info

OpenAI has shared a proposed solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, one of mathematics' deepest open questions, saying the proof was produced by a group of AI agents running on a next-generation model that is "significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra."

Highlights

  • The Navier-Stokes problem asks whether smooth three-dimensional fluid motion can break down; it has remained unresolved for roughly 90 years.
  • OpenAI attributes the proof to a group of agents working together, rather than a single model call.
  • The team behind the work also honors the long line of human mathematicians whose foundational contributions made the result possible.
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