AnalysisAI ModelsSeptember 12, 2026

Essay: AI progress on Millennium Prize problems and math's future

Essay recounts an unnamed OpenAI model solving the forced version of Navier-Stokes, followed by OpenAI telling the New York Times it made "substantial progress on another Millennium Prize problem." It centers on Terence Tao's argument that struggling with a problem changes the mathematician, and that value is lost when the struggle disappears.

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