OpenAI's math model is reportedly chipping away at two more Millennium Prize problems - Startup Fortune
OpenAI's math model is reportedly chipping away at two more Millennium Prize problems - Startup Fortune
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OpenAI's math model is reportedly chipping away at two more Millennium Prize problems
Reddit threads on r/OpenAI claim the company's mod
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OpenAI's math model is reportedly chipping away at two more Millennium Prize problems
Reddit threads on r/OpenAI claim the company's model is advancing on two more $1 million Clay Institute problems, weeks after its contested Navier-Stokes result drew a 25-signature Fields Medalist rebuke.
Elroy Fernandes
Oct 7, 2026 · 12:14 PM
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A month after OpenAI said it cracked a problem that stumped mathematicians for 90 years, Redditors and reporters are now chasing the question of what its model is working on next, and the math world is done taking OpenAI's word for it.
On September 8, OpenAI said an internal model had solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem, one of seven Millennium Prize Problems the Clay Mathematics Institute has backed with a $1 million bounty each since 2000. Weeks later, OpenAI told The New York Times it had made "substantial progress" on a second one, without naming it or giving a timeline for disclosure. Threads on r/OpenAI have since pushed that further, with users claiming the company's model is now showing movement on two additional Millennium Problems at once, not just one. OpenAI hasn't confirmed that count, and nothing beyond the NYT line and online speculation backs it up yet.
Here's what's actually been reported. Online speculation, unconfirmed by OpenAI, points to the Hodge Conjecture as the second problem, a 1950 puzzle about whether every "Hodge class" on certain geometric shapes can be built out of algebraic pieces, proposed by the mathematician William Hodge and unproven ever since. That's one candidate with a name attached. The other alleged target floating around Reddit and aggregator sites has no confirmed identity at all. Readers should treat the "two problems" framing as claimed progress, not an established fact, until OpenAI or an outside mathematician says otherwise.
Why is anyone taking an unverified Reddit claim seriously? Because OpenAI's own math team has given th