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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

OpenAI claims its AI systems solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems published by the Clay Mathematics Institute, which has stumped humans for nearly a century. The company behind ChatGPT said 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the problem in 88 hours, an effort that cost millions of dollars.

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OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades
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By Ian Sample and Dan MilmoSource:

[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)
Company behind [ChatGPT](/compare/chatgpt-vs-claude) says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours

OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the artificial intelligence-led endeavour.

The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems published by the Clay Mathematics Institute to highlight some of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the field.

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