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

  • OpenAI received Justin Sun’s first $1 million prize for its Navier-Stokes proof.
  • 10,000 AI agents worked 88 hours before GPT-6 Astra checked the logic for 17 hours.
  • The Clay Mathematics Institute still lists Navier-Stokes as active on its website.

OpenAI has been named the winner of Justin Sun’s inaugural $1 million mathematics prize for an AI-authored proof addressing the three-dimensional Navier-Stokes equations, a fluid-dynamics problem that mathematicians have worked on for decades. The award remains unclaimed, echoing OpenAI’s decision not to collect an identical $1 million Millennium Prize from the Clay Mathematics Institute, which still lists the problem as active. OpenAI said 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours before GPT-6 Astra spent 17 hours checking the logic. Two mathematicians said unpublished research may have been included in an OpenAI product, a claim the company disputes. Sun’s prize uses machine-checkable proofs (results verified by software) and allows separate payouts for proving a result and converting it into code. His list marks Navier-Stokes as solved, credits the OpenAI team and says the award is eligible to claim, while warning that the announcement has not undergone peer review or been confirmed by mathematicians.

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