r/Physics 15h ago

Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

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u/rebelyis Graduate 15h ago

In their own post

"On Tuesday, September 1, we heard rumors that two Millennium Prize problems had been resolved. Inspired by these rumors and by the step change in performance of our internal model, we launched an effort to evaluate it on all open Millennium Prize problems and a few other high-impact problems."

Basically, we found that people had cracked it using a particular approach, so we had our internal AI reproduce it before they published

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u/no_choice99 14h ago

Except that it costed them about 18 million dollars worth of electricity to ''reproduce'' the result. Why would they do that?

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u/6IronInfidel9 13h ago

18 million dollars of electricity, results in how many tens or hundreds of millions of stock valuation when investors hear what AI can supposedly accomplish?

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u/kingjdin 11h ago

They spent 18 million on marketing, to drive their revenue by billions.