OpenAI declines Justin Sun's $1M prize for Navier-Stokes proof
- —OpenAI published the proof on September 8: 10,000 AI agents worked for 88 hours, with verification taking another 17 hours
- —The Clay Institute's $1 million prize for the same problem also went unclaimed
- —Justin Sun created the prize 8 days after a dispute over the proof's origins
- —Under Sun's prize rules, for an already-solved problem the award goes to whoever formalizes the proof in code
Why it matters: The dispute over rights to unpublished data and OpenAI's refusal of the prizes raises questions about the ethics of AI research and authorship of results.
Source: BeInCrypto