{"id":79466,"topic":"ai","source":"teleSUR English","title":"OpenAI’s Artificial Intelligence Solves One of The Millennium Prize Problems - teleSUR English","url":"https://www.telesurenglish.net/openais-artificial-intelligence-solves-one-of-the-millennium-prize-problems/","url_hash":"9ee4a9961114683e18b1b030cbb8d0919625e6d5","author":"","summary":"<a href=\"https://news.google.com/rss/articles/CBMiqwFBVV95cUxOLVJUQVR6bjNSQjNUYjVZUTlLckoyLTBfNGdrelEybDh2d2JKelgxV1FtRHFuYW9FcjVFVjg0eFBIeGV0ekdoSThXczROcFFGVktwR0hpQ2p1VE1XYlRLUjkwOU9ob1dTVnFSQkRBZTBrS1BXdDItbnpZWmNza3dGSzd5TmxnT1dwOUFweEJpbTJKc3J6d01ONWEtal9zc09jRUZRaXg4YndYc00?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\">OpenAI’s Artificial Intelligence Solves One of The Millennium Prize Problems</a>&nbsp;&nbsp;<font color=\"#6f6f6f\">teleSUR English</font>","content":"X/ @IpIndependent\nSeptember 10, 2026 Hour: 8:26 am\nThe work of two Spanish mathematicians was essential to finding a solution to the Navier-Stokes problem.\nOn Wednesday, Spanish mathematicians Diego Cordoba and Luis Martinez Zoroa praised the recognition OpenAI has given to their contributions, which enabled its artificial intelligence agents to solve the Navier-Stokes equation, one of the Millennium Prize Problems.\nRELATED:\nThey insisted that without their previous contributions, no AI would have been able to solve the problem, but also that without artificial intelligence, humans would have taken much longer to find the solution.\nOn Tuesday, the U.S. tech company said one of its AI models had found a solution to the problem, a discovery made by a model that has not yet been publicly introduced and that is more capable than the GPT-6 model recently launched.\nThe publication of these results has nevertheless generated strong controversy, both over whether the findings actually constitute a definitive solution to this mathematical problem and over who the true authors are. 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