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OpenAI Confirms It's Made Progress on a Second $1 Million Math Problem
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OpenAI isn't done cashing in on math's hardest open questions—at least not on the credit for solving them, since the company says it doesn't want the money.
Key facts
- Days after claiming a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, OpenAI told the New York Times it has made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize Problem, one of seven grand puzzles
- ^ new slugs added to a statsig feature flag that appeared ~30 mins ago in Codex Desktop
- OpenAI says it isn't chasing the $1 million prize for publishing any result—it's using the problems as a public yardstick for how fast its models are improving
- Chatter across social media has zeroed in on the Hodge Conjecture, a 1950 puzzle about how to count the "holes" in complex geometric shapes—the kind with so many dimensions nobody can picture them
Summary
OpenAI told the New York Times it has made "substantial progress" on a second Millennium Prize Problem since solving Navier-Stokes on September 8, without naming the problem or a disclosure timeline. Online speculation, unconfirmed by OpenAI, points to the Hodge Conjecture, a 76-year-old puzzle about counting the "holes" in complex geometric shapes. The Clay Mathematics Institute's review of OpenAI's Navier-Stokes proof is still pending, and a separate credit dispute with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster remains unresolved. Days after claiming a solution to the Navier-Stokes equations, OpenAI told the New York Times it has made "substantial progress" on another Millennium Prize Problem, one of seven grand puzzles the Clay Mathematics Institute has backed with a $1 million bounty since 2000.