OpenAI claims huge maths breakthrough on a famed ‘Millennium Problem’0

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• September 9, 2026

The motion of fluids is described by the Navier–Stokes equations, the focus of one of the thorniest problems in mathematics.Credit: Kertlis/Getty For the first time, a truly major open problem in mathematics has been solved by computer, according to OpenAI, which says it has cracked one of the ‘Millennium Problems’ related to the motion of