OpenAI claims AI solves 200-yr math problem, sparking dispute
openai says its ai solved navier-stokes equation, but another mathematician claims they made progress first. this raises questions about priority and ethics in ai research.
openai revealed today that its ai has found a solution to the navier-stokes equation, one of the clay millennium prizes worth $1 million. the company used over a thousand agents and spent 'in the millions of dollars' on compute to solve the problem. however, mathematician tristan buckmaster and researcher levent alpöge claim they were working on a related area and openai became aware of their progress, leading to a dispute over priority and ethics.