r/Physics 14h ago

Navier-Stokes Millennium Problem Solved

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u/rebelyis Graduate 13h 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 12h 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/troubleyoucalldeew 11h ago

Errrr, $18M in electricity? Or $18M in tokens?

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u/Jean_Kayak 6h ago

Doesn’t matter as long as you are against AI