# OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved a $1 million math problem. Mathematicians are pushing back

https://mins.news/en/item/51217

- CoinDesk, 2026-09-09 11:23 UTC
- Science
- Original: https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2026/09/09/openai-says-10-000-ai-agents-solved-a-usd1-million-math-problem-now-mathematicians-are-fighting

> OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents solved one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. An internal model described as more powerful than GPT-6 Astra proposed a solution, but mathematicians are questioning how independently it arrived at the result.

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