The Navier Stokes Solution: A Wake Up Call for AI's Mathemagical Tricks The recent news that OpenAI claims to have solved one of math's grand challenges, the Navier Stokes equations, has sent shockwaves through the academic and tech communities.
Behind this announcement lies a tangled web of controversy, accusations, and disturbing questions about how exactly they did it – and what it means for the future of mathematics and artificial intelligence.
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster revealed that his team at New York University's Courant Institute had been working on a solution using several AI models from both Anthropic and OpenAI for most of a year before making rapid progress in mid August.