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OpenAI says a swarm of 10,000 AI agents cracked a decades-old math problem
🧒 Discovery
Thousands of thinking little robots worked together, like a giant anthill, to crack a math riddle nobody had managed to solve in a very long time.
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OpenAI says it helped solve the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of the seven Millennium Prize Problems, by coordinating roughly 10,000 AI agents that generated 2.7 million messages.
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The swarm produced 130 billion output tokens tackling Navier-Stokes, but mathematicians from NYU and Anthropic dispute the credit: they had submitted similar code to Codex before OpenAI's announcement. OpenAI admits it cannot rule out that de-identified data from product usage helped train its models, an awkward gray zone for any company feeding proprietary code into AI tools.