Sam Altman responded to accusations of plagiarism following a dispute over competing mathematical proofs related to the Navier-Stokes and Euler equations. He said OpenAI's team, including Sebastien Bubeck, tried to coordinate a joint release with a rival team that included an Anthropic researcher, Levent, but that Levent refused to communicate. Altman said OpenAI ultimately published independently after being accused of plagiarism, despite the two teams' approaches reportedly differing.
twitter.com
· 2026-09-09
OpenAI says an unreleased AI model produced a proof addressing the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize math problems, completing the work in 88 hours. The proof reportedly identifies a scenario where the fluid-dynamics equations break down mathematically, though researchers stress this doesn't mean real fluids like water would physically behave that way.
science.slashdot.org
· 2026-09-09
OpenAI announced that an AI model produced a Lean-verified solution to a key case of the 200-year-old Navier-Stokes equation, one of the Clay Millennium Prize problems, after running over a thousand agents for more than 50 hours at a cost of millions of dollars in compute. The announcement came shortly after mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge posted their own related advances, and Buckmaster has accused OpenAI of rushing to claim credit after learning of their progress.
wired.com
· 2026-09-08
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