# OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades > Source: > Published: 2026-09-08 21:29:10+00:00 # OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades 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](/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. The 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. [Continue reading...](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2026/sep/08/openai-claims-to-have-solved-maths-problem-that-stumped-humans-for-decades) Get AI news in your inbox Daily digest of what matters in AI.