It took OpenAI's agents 130 billion tokens to crack a 90-year-old math problem

Business Insider | 09-09-2026 09:31pm |

OpenAI announced that its agents solved the Navier-Stokes equations, a 90-year-old math problem, using 130 billion output tokens and sending 2.7 million messages. The effort involved about 10,000 concurrent agents and took 88 hours to reach a resolution. The Clay Mathematics Institute has offered a $1 million prize for the solution, but OpenAI stated it will not accept the cash prize. OpenAI's CEO joked about the AI bubble in response to the achievement.

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