OpenAI solves legendary math problem amid community backlash

OpenAI announced it solved the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems unsolved for around 90 years. The breakthrough sparked backlash from mathematicians who accuse the company of violating academic norms and lacking transparency about training data origins. OpenAI formed an advisory panel to repair relations with the mathematics community.

OpenAI appears less like an enthusiastic newcomer than an impossibly well-resourced interloper, charging into problems they have dedicated their lives to studying with little apparent regard for long-standing norms.