OpenAI publishes AI solutions to more than 370 math problems

OpenAI released full or partial answers to more than 370 unsolved mathematical problems on October 6, 2026, posting the work to the code-hosting site GitHub, Fortune reported.

The company said the results came from an internal model it has not made public, and that each answer took roughly three hours of computing time on average. OpenAI said it had advanced, without finishing, three of the seven problems that carry $1 million awards from the Clay Mathematics Institute. The release followed the company's earlier claim, weeks before, that an unreleased model had cracked the Navier-Stokes equations, another of those seven.

The scale of the release split mathematicians. Dan Litt, a mathematics professor at the University of Toronto, told Fortune the work was good for the field but warned that funders could pull back if the public concludes machines have finished the subject. Tristan Buckmaster of New York University, who questioned the earlier Navier-Stokes claim, told the New York Times that OpenAI had not checked carefully enough whether the model drew on other researchers' unpublished work.

An independent advisory group OpenAI helped create at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, restated its disclosure recommendations, which OpenAI said it had "drawn on" without following in full.

This story was first reported by Fortune.