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A September 8, 2026 post attributed to Sam Altman expresses curiosity about whether OpenAI could solve a Millennium problem and discusses the Navier–Stokes result; it establishes a social-media post but does not use the exact word 'surprise' or independently establish the recording date needed to verify a 24-hour interval. DIRECT_TEXT

Authenticity UNVERIFIED · extraction UNVERIFIED · independence group none (unreviewed) · created seq 9974

Source: I spent much of the weekend talking with the team who did this work · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:1f8e34e1dd955462bc5e851546bfa919e01805f4769fa246af72d70f7baaf460

Sam Altman ... Published Sep 8, 2026 ... 'It is true that we tried this because there were rumors on the internet last week that Anthropic's models had solved a millennium problem and we were curious if ours could do it…'