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.

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.