Why “millennium” is being discussed
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AI Has Solved One of Math's $1M Millennium Prize Problems
by pseudolus · Sep 9, 2026 · 1 points
AI just solved a millennium prize problem. In a matter of days. Because of a rumor that someone else solved the same problem with AI. What exactly would AI have to do in order t…
by zarzavat · Sep 9, 2026
OpenAI never asked for the removal of another coauthor. The parent comment is spreading misinformation. OpenAI offered to let Buckmaster to write their Millennium Prize paper, s…
by tristanj · Sep 9, 2026
"Across all attempted problems, the agents sent 4.9 million messages and used about 300 billion output tokens." At a conservative estimate of GPT 6 Astra pricing, this would hav…
by webcoon · Sep 9, 2026
Didn't they say that they launched an effort to evaluate their model on all open Millennium Prize problems, and then narrowed down to Navier-Stokes as the most promising after s…
by MrToadMan · Sep 9, 2026
"On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal mo…
by piker · Sep 9, 2026
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