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Mathematicians Rebut OpenAI's Navier-Stokes Proof as Solving the Wrong Problem
Independent team verifies OpenAI's formal proof checks
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Researchers at 8Braid reproduced OpenAI's submitted Lean formal checks, confirmed both the Nanoda and default Lean kernels accepted the proof, and derived an explicit stability bound for one algebraic step, while noting that formal verification does not settle whether the result matches the intended physical problem.
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“We reproduced the formal checks, proved an explicit bound for one construction step, and tested how 8DB handles its evidence.”
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OpenAI AI company Luis Silvestre Mathematician, University of Chicago Diego Córdoba Mathematician Luis Martínez-Zoroa Mathematician 8Braid Independent verification team
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