Research Ethics

On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem

Simon Willison documents OpenAI's claim to have resolved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem using an internal model in under four days, and the ethical controversy that followed. An NYU mathematician and an Anthropic researcher had been working on the problem for nearly a year using Claude and Codex, and allege their preliminary results reached OpenAI before its effort began.

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