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OpenAI Touts Progress on a Second Millennium Prize Problem

If OpenAI's results survive verification, the company would move from generating text to producing original answers in a field where correctness is judged by mathematicians, not benchmarks.

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OpenAI Touts Progress on a Second Millennium Prize Problem

OpenAI said it has made significant progress on another of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, the New York Times reported on September 10. Two days earlier, OpenAI said its AI had generated a proof for the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. Mathematicians are still verifying that work, and it is not confirmed as an official solution. The Clay Mathematics Institute set the seven problems in 2000 with a 1 million dollar prize for a correct solution.

The Navier-Stokes claim is still under review. That has not stopped OpenAI from telling the New York Times it has made significant progress on another of the seven Millennium Prize Problems and is working out how to release the results. OpenAI has not named the second problem, and the New York Times does not say what stage that work is at. The Clay Mathematics Institute set the seven problems in 2000, each carrying a 1 million dollar prize, and no confirmed solution has been announced for the one OpenAI already put forward.

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