🚨🔥 OpenAI claims it solved Navier-Stokes. Drama already.
10,000 AI agents, 88 hours, one of math's great unsolved problems. OpenAI says the proof covers the forced 3D Navier-Stokes equations, not the unforced version that qualifies for the actual $1M Millennium Prize.
And then it got messy. NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster says he was working the same narrow approach and that Bubeck offered him a choice: coordinate the release, or write it up alone with his Anthropic-affiliated co-author left off.
Bubeck disputes that account. Both sides are airing it on X in real time.
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I would like to clarify a few things:
1) The screenshot is my reaching out to Levent to coordinate our releases. I hope it’s clear from the message that we came in with the best possible intentio…
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