OpenAI says internal model cracked 100+ open math problems

OpenAI said on September 8 that an unreleased internal model, described as significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra, resolved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness Millennium Prize problem. The week-long agent effort used about 10,000 concurrent agents and 300 billion output tokens, valued at $22.5 million at Astra rates.
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