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Drama swirls around OpenAI’s legendary mathematical milestone
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OpenAI’s breakthrough with a 90-year-old problem is challenged by researchers who solved a related problem the day before.
Key facts
- The Navier-Stokes problem is one of seven Millennium Prize Problems, each of which comes with a $1 million reward for solving
- OpenAI says it doesn’t plan on taking the $1 million prize
- OpenAI’s breakthrough with a 90-year-old problem is challenged by researchers who solved a related problem the day
- OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired
Summary
OpenAI says it found a solution to a major math problem that has remained unsolved for around 90 years, as reported earlier by The New York Times and Wired. OpenAI says it started training the internal AI model on August 28th, which has “exhibited unprecedented performance in our benchmarks, including mathematics.” The solution is a big breakthrough for the mathematics community, but it doesn’t come without controversy. One day before OpenAI’s announcement, New York University mathematics professor Tristan Buckmaster published findings on a related problem in partnership with Levent Alpöge, a researcher at Anthropic. In his statement, Buckmaster raises concerns about whether OpenAI had accessed their Codex data to get closer to the Navier-Stokes solution.