The controversy around OpenAI "solving" a $1m math problem (Navier-Stokes)

OpenAI claims to have solved the Navier-Stokes problem, but others claim their work has been copied. This is an evolving story, and I offer the frontier of that story as known on September 8, 2026. We are all living in history. If OpenAI really solved the $1,000,000 Clay Math Institute Millennium Prize problem, then good on them. But what does that mean for us, or the people OpenAI (potentially) copied?

Also, guys and gals, I'm sorry about my pronunciation; I certainly mispronounced some things because of this video's rushed production.

Terence Tao weighed in on Stan Palasek providing a possible hole in the OpenAI proposed solution to Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. Is that solution ripped off of Levet Alpoge

I'm just trying to get to this before @veritasium or @numberphile or @CleoAbram , because this is certainly big if true.

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SOURCES:
Buckmaster + Alpoge papers = https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/euler.pdf and https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/ipm.pdf and https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/boussinesq.pdf
Buckmaster + Alpoge Lean formalization = https://github.com/tristanbuckmaster/fluid_lean
Buckmaster's claims = https://cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/statement.pdf
Palasek's idea & Tao response = https://mathstodon.xyz/@palasek/117235270483911935
Palasek's paper that motivated his counterargument = https://arxiv.org/pdf/2605.13827
Tao's blogpost = https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2026/09/07/finite-time-blowup-with-smooth-forcing-term-for-the-incompressible-porous-medium-boussinesq-and-incompressible-euler-equations/
OpenAI 166pg manuscript = https://openai.com/index/navier-stokes-solution/
OpenAI Lean formalization = https://github.com/openai/NavierStokesAndEuler
OpenAI Twitter announcement = https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2097374640582668336
Bubeck's refutation = https://x.com/SebastienBubeck/status/2097379411691516310

Again, this is developing

#math #physics #ai #openai

Timestamps:
0:00 Intro
1:04 What is Navier-Stokes?
2:12 Subproblem
3:20 Bubeck Reaches Out
4:00 Today.
5:30 Weak Point
6:53 Developing Situation
7:30 TL;DR
7:50 Outro

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