OpenAI wins Justin Sun’s $1 million math prize, leaves award unclaimed

  • OpenAI’s research team was named winner of Justin Sun’s inaugural $1 million prize for a machine-checkable Navier-Stokes proof, but has not claimed the award.
  • OpenAI said 10,000 AI agents worked for 88 hours before GPT-6 Astra checked the logic for 17 hours.
  • Clay still lists Navier-Stokes as active, while Sun’s entry marks it solved but warns the result is not peer-reviewed or confirmed by mathematicians.

OpenAI’s research team was named the winner of Justin Sun’s inaugural $1 million prize for an artificial-intelligence-authored, Lean-formalized proof addressing the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, but the award remains unclaimed. OpenAI said 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours before GPT-6 Astra spent 17 hours checking the logic. The Clay Mathematics Institute still lists Navier-Stokes as an active Millennium Prize Problem, and OpenAI has said it will not claim Clay’s separate $1 million award. Two mathematicians said unpublished research may have been incorporated into an OpenAI product, a claim OpenAI disputes. Sun’s prize accepts machine-checkable results under its own rules rather than traditional peer review, and its warning says the OpenAI announcement has not been confirmed by mathematicians.

The information on this website is generated using AI and we cannot guarantee its accuracy. Please use it as reference information only.