OpenAI Says Its AI Agents Cracked a Problem That Eluded Mathematicians for Generations

OpenAI said an unreleased model running roughly 10,000 parallel agents produced a solution to a long-standing problem tied to the Navier-Stokes equations after 88 hours of work. Mathematicians are reviewing the claim and several have urged caution about how the result is being described. The announcement has intensified debate over how AI systems should be credited in research.