Mathematicians doubt OpenAI solved "the" Navier-Stokes problem: the proof rests on an artificially chosen external force
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Formally the prize may be claimed, but the dispute shows that SI has learned to win problems by the letter of the condition faster than people have agreed on what counts as a real answer.
Scientific American examined why some specialists do not consider the main question closed. The Clay Institute's formulation allows a variant with an external force (like gravity), and OpenAI's proof relies on exactly that: the fluid accelerates to infinite speed only under a specially constructed force, and recent work shows that without it the blow-up of the solution disappears. "The most important problem is not solved," says Luis Silvestre of the University of Chicago; Diego Córdoba objects that external forces act on any real fluid. The article contains no response from OpenAI.
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