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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample and Dan Milmo

OpenAI claims to have solved maths problem that stumped humans for decades

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OpenAI denied that the company had used work from rivals to solve the notoriously difficult puzzle. Photograph: Dado Ruvić/Reuters

OpenAI claims to have solved a major mathematics problem that has stumped humans for nearly a century after spending millions of dollars on the artificial intelligence-led endeavour.

The company behind ChatGPT said it had cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems published by the Clay Mathematics Institute to highlight some of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the field.

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