{"slug": "openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems", "title": "OpenAI forms math advisory group as its AI resolves more than 100 open problems", "summary": "OpenAI announced on Monday a new independent Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ, and named nine prominent mathematicians as initial members. OpenAI also claims the same internal model that produced a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem has resolved more than 100 additional open problems across most areas of mathematics. The group will assess the significance of new results and coordinate their release but, per OpenAI's blog post, \"will not be responsible for advising us on how to pace our internal progress on mathematics,\" a limit the Institute for Advanced Study echoed by stating it has no decision-making power at any AI company.", "body_md": "On Monday, OpenAI announced a new independent advisory group hosted at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ. Called [The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence](https://openai.com/index/advisory-group-on-mathematics-and-ai/), the group is meant to give mathematicians more input into the company’s math-oriented research. \n\n“This group will serve as a bridge to the mathematical community and broader public, giving mathematicians a voice in how we move forward,” the post reads.\n\nThe announcement comes after the abrupt publication of [a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem](https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/openai-fought-dirty-on-career-making-math-problem-says-nyu-mathematician/). As part of the announcement of the new group, OpenAI also claims that the same internal model has resolved more than 100 additional open problems across most areas of mathematics.\n\nMany prominent mathematicians have taken issue with the frenzied pace of those results. Earlier this month, twenty-five Fields Medal-winning mathematicians signed [an open letter](https://mathandai.org/) arguing that AI labs are threatening their intellectual work as they seek to one-up each other with solutions to famous math problems.\n\nTrue to its name, OpenAI’s new group will mostly serve in an advisory capacity, assessing the significance of new results and coordinating their release. While members won’t be paid, they can offer unsolicited advice, can go public with their views, and control their own membership, giving them a measure of independence from the company.\n\nHowever, the group won’t be given leeway to slow down or redirect OpenAI’s ongoing mathematical research. As the blog post puts it, “the group will not be responsible for advising us on how to pace our internal progress on mathematics.”\n\nThe Institute for Advanced Study emphasized this point in its own announcement. “Although we will give advice, we do not have decision making power at any AI company, and the responsibility for the decisions made by any company will rest with that company,” [said](https://agmai.org) the institute in a press release.\n\nNine prominent mathematicians have been named as initial members of the group. Notably, only one of the members — IAS’s Camillo de Lellis — also signed the Fields Medalists’ letter.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems", "canonical_source": "https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/21/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems/", "published_at": "2026-09-21 20:15:58+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 20:25:18.208354+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-research", "artificial-intelligence", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["OpenAI", "Institute for Advanced Study", "Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence", "Camillo de Lellis", "Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/openai-forms-math-advisory-group-as-its-ai-resolves-more-than-100-open-problems.jsonld"}}