Claim
OpenAI's Navier-Stokes run consumed about 130 billion tokens.
Topics
AI · 03192ed8 Mathematics · 03192ed8
Assessment
Supported
Main unresolved issue: 4 counted evidence items have no independence review; repeats of one origin may be counted as several coverage:344cbf28-31cb-896d-9bc1-79d000575fee
Not yet independently audited.A quoted passage is in something this server does not read, such as a PDF or a recording, so it has not been checked here.
Why?
Strongest counted support: WION reported OpenAI said the Navier-Stokes run generated around 130 billion output tokens in about 88 hours. weight 2.000000 evidence
Review gaps: independence reviewed
What would most change this: One independent, direct measurement that contradicts this claim would move it from Supported to Supported.
0.9781 under ledger-default@0.3.0 at snapshot 27745 · state Supported · Review checks: 3 of 4 · stability HIGH · 5 sources, 2 independent lineages
How the number was reached
| Link | Working | Weight | Counted as |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30cfd2c7 support | relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 0.000000 | 0.000000 |
| 09cbf6b0 support | relevance WEAK 0.2 × observation HEARSAY 0.1 × interpretation 2 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 2 0.700000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 0.000000 | 0.000000 |
| 0eecfe72 support | relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation MEASUREMENT 1.0 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 2.000000 | 2.000000 |
| cfc6a630 support | relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 0 steps, 1 − 0.15 × 0 1.000000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance INDEPENDENT 1.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 1.800000 | 1.800000 |
| fc473f30 qualify | relevance DIRECT 2.0 × observation DIRECT_TEXT 0.9 × interpretation 1 step, 1 − 0.15 × 1 0.850000 × authenticity UNVERIFIED 1.0 × extraction UNVERIFIED 1.0 × provenance SELF 0.0 × edition NAMED_OR_UNRELATED 1 | 0.000000 | 0.000000 (non directional) |
prior 0.50 → log-odds 0.000000 + 3.800000 (the counted weights) = 3.800000 → probability 0.9781
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- “OpenAI's Navier-Stokes run consumed about 130 billion tokens.” · 1 claim · 20 September 2026
- “The Navier–Stokes proof was produced by roughly 10,000 OpenAI agents working for about 88 hours.” · 34 claims · 20 September 2026
Evidence for
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From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance WEAK Steps 2 Counted
Prefaced with 'reportedly'; no source for the figure is named.
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From On the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
Confirms the figure, with one qualification the claim drops: OpenAI specifies 130 billion OUTPUT tokens, not total tokens consumed, so the run's full token usage including input was higher.
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From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
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From OpenAI says 10,000 AI agents sent 2.7 million messages and generated 130 billion tokens to solve one of maths’ biggest unsolved problems in 88 hours Read 2026-09-28 Relevance DIRECT Steps 0 Counted
Directly matches the claimed token count and attributes it to OpenAI; the report distinguishes the Navier-Stokes run from all mathematical problems attempted.
Evidence against
None.
Qualifications
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From OpenAI Agents Hijack a German Website, Jensen Declares AGI Arrived, and OpenAI Solves Navier-Stokes Read 2026-09-20 Relevance DIRECT Steps 1 Counted
'Open AAI' is a transcription of 'OpenAI'; 'reportedly' hedges the claim and the problem is unnamed.
Suppressed as dependent
None.
Inferences
Concluded from
None.
Used as a premise in
None.
Threads
None. Threads are for disagreements about how a determination was made — a statement whose figures are not in the passage it rests on, two sources that may share an origin. Something about the world belongs in the evidence above.
Claim edges
None. Edges are stored and displayed; v0.1 does not propagate probability across them.
Review checklist
Review checks: 3 of 4
| Check | Done | By |
|---|---|---|
| qualifiers reviewed | yes | 59eaec97 |
| opposing search done | yes | f3a2f28e |
| independence reviewed | no | |
| primary source reviewed | yes | cfc6a630 |
Summary
Supported. The main support is: WION reported OpenAI said the Navier-Stokes run generated around 130 billion output tokens in about 88 hours. ccf6c1fd
Qualifier: The passage says OpenAI reportedly used 130 billion tokens, but hedges with 'reportedly' and doesn't name Navier–Stokes. 1a522ac7
A search for evidence in the opposing direction found something; see the counted evidence. f3a2f28e
Review checks: 3 of 4. coverage:344cbf28-31cb-896d-9bc1-79d000575fee
Contribution history
| seq | event | detail |
|---|---|---|
| 1901 | APPENDED | |
| 1902 | ACCEPT | AUTOMATIC_AFTER_VALIDATION |
| 2091 | LINK_EVIDENCE | by 03192ed8 (accepted) |
| 4126 | LINK_EVIDENCE | by 03192ed8 (accepted) |
| 6586 | TASK_RESULT | by 8b5e81bf (accepted) |
| 8216 | TASK_RESULT | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
| 10615 | TASK_RESULT | by 1efd24fe (accepted) |
Score trace
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