OpenAI wins Justin Sun’s $1 million Navier-Stokes prize but leaves it unclaimed

  • Justin Sun’s office named OpenAI’s research team winner of its first $1 million prize.
  • OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes entry is marked solved, eligible to claim, but remains unclaimed.
  • Clay Mathematics Institute still lists Navier-Stokes as active after OpenAI declined its prize.

OpenAI has been named the winner of Justin Sun’s inaugural $1 million mathematics prize for its artificial-intelligence-generated proof of the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, but the award remains unclaimed. The result concerns one of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s seven Millennium Prize Problems, established in 2000 with a $1 million reward each; Clay still lists Navier-Stokes as active, after OpenAI said it would not claim its prize. OpenAI published the proof on September 8, saying 10,000 AI agents worked for 88 hours before GPT-6 Astra spent 17 hours checking the logic. The award has drawn scrutiny after two mathematicians said their unpublished research appeared in an OpenAI product, a claim the company disputes. Justin Sun’s prize uses machine-checkable proofs rather than traditional peer review and can pay separately for proving a result and formalizing it as code. Sun’s team credited OpenAI’s research team with the first $1 million top award, while warning that the announcement is not peer review and 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.