ScienceDrama swirls around OpenAI’s claimed Navier-Stokes breakthrough

OpenAI says an internal AI model and 10,000 concurrent agents solved the roughly 90-year-old Navier-Stokes problem, one of the Millennium Prize Problems. The claim faces scrutiny after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster questioned whether OpenAI accessed work he developed with Levent Alpöge. OpenAI denies using specific user data but says it cannot rule out de-identified data improving its models, and will not seek the $1 million prize.

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