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OpenAI reportedly nears solving a second Millennium Prize math problem

Details emerge on OpenAI's cautious approach and unclear motive

2 Sep 17 3:05 PM · 9d ago · 1 article · 1 post · 2 sources · development 2 of 2

The Decoder reports OpenAI used a variant of its next pretrained model, codenamed "Doug," likely costing millions of dollars, for the Navier-Stokes work, and that the company wants to avoid repeating the messaging backlash for any Hodge conjecture announcement; it remains unclear what OpenAI hopes to gain, though some inside the company link the effort to recursive self-improvement.

Details emerge on OpenAI's cautious approach and unclear motive
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“The math community, meanwhile, is more angry than impressed.”

The Decoder

OpenAI AI developerCharles Fefferman Princeton mathematicianTristan Buckmaster NYU mathematicianLevent Alpöge Anthropic mathematicianLuis Martínez-Zoroa CUNEF University researcher

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  1. 1 outlet OpenAI reportedly closes in on solving the Hodge conjecture, its second Millennium Prize Problem

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