OpenAIEventScienceSeptember 8, 2026

OpenAI claims AI agents solved Navier-Stokes in 88 hours

OpenAI says ~10,000 coordinating agents using an unreleased model more capable than GPT-6 Astra produced a solution in 88 hours, with a writeup and Lean formal proof. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster alleges the effort followed his and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge's year of work on the problem.

People · Tristan Buckmaster, Levent Alpöge

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