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OpenAI and Anthropic announced an AI-assisted progress toward solving the Millennium Prize Problem on Navier-Stokes, but the ensuing corporate dispute overshadowed the scientific achievement. OpenAI later claimed the work used 10,000 agents from a next-generation model more capable than “GPT-6 Astra.” The result is reduced focus on collaboration and a broader contrast with reported declines in student performance, with generative AI blamed by the author.
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