OpenAI Solved Navier-Stokes. So Who Actually Figured It Out?

OpenAI claims its AI agents cracked the Navier-Stokes puzzle, a $1 million prize target, in roughly 88 hours. But who truly solved it? Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge shared three papers hours before OpenAI's announcement. That research built on years of effort by Diego Córdoba and Luis Martínez-Zoroa. Buckmaster also posted an apology for how one reads. The Millennium Prize problem poses a challenge: can a fluid, starting from a perfectly smooth state, break down within a finite time? Th