{"slug": "openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades", "title": "OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades", "summary": "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.", "body_md": "# OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades\n\nBy Ian Sample and Dan MilmoSource: \n\n[The Guardian Technology](https://www.theguardian.com/us/technology)\nCompany behind [ChatGPT](/compare/chatgpt-vs-claude) says 10,000 of its AI systems cracked the Navier-Stokes problem in 88 hours\n\n[OpenAI](/glossary/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](/glossary/artificial-intelligence)-led endeavour.\n\nThe company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems [published by the Clay Mathematics Institute](https://www.claymath.org/millennium-problems/) to highlight some of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the field.\n\n[Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/08/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades)\n\nGet AI news in your inbox\n\nDaily digest of what matters in AI.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades", "canonical_source": "https://www.machinebrief.com/news/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-huma-zv53", "published_at": "2026-09-08 21:29:10+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-08 23:45:27.253196+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "ChatGPT", "Clay Mathematics Institute"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades.jsonld"}}