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The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem
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However, the announcement swiftly became mired in controversy after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster, a professor at New York University, said OpenAI accelerated its work on the problem after hearing that he and another researcher at Anthropic, an OpenAI rival, were poised to announce their own breakthrough.
Key facts
- Mathematicians who solve any of the Millennium Prize Problems are in line for a $1m (£740,000) reward from the Clay Mathematics Institute
- It took OpenAI’s GPT-6 Astra about 17 hours to verify the solution
- OpenAI said it tackled the Navier-Stokes problem with an internal OpenAI system that was more powerful than its latest GPT-6 Astra model
- Bubeck said the solution to the Navier-Stokes problem was “a spectacular culmination of the arc they have seen over the past 12 months
Summary
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-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 to highlight some of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the field. Buckmaster had further concerns because the pair’s work in progress was stored in OpenAI’s Codex model, which is used for writing computer programs, potentially making the work visible to the OpenAI team. In a document posted on his website, he added: “The reporter does not know what their model did, or how.