In a Clip Shared by Prinz, Sam Altman Says the Model That Solved Navier Stokes Is the Next GPT and Will Be Released Soon
Sam Altman says that the internal model that solved Navier-Stokes will be released "soon": "It was 10,000 agents of the model that is going to be released soon, the next GPT, working for about four days, nonstop, collaborating with each other perfectly."
Context
It ties OpenAI's headline math result to a model the public will soon be able to use, suggesting the next GPT is much stronger at long, multi agent research work.
In September OpenAI said a large swarm of AI agents produced a proof about blowup in the Navier Stokes equations, one of the Millennium Prize problems, with a formal Lean check. Mathematicians have debated how much it settles, since the result relies on a carefully chosen external force. On Oct 31 Altman said OpenAI let its AI math work run for a week.
Deep dive
Prinz (@deredleritt3r) posted on Nov 2 a clip of OpenAI CEO Sam Altman talking about the internal model behind OpenAI's Navier Stokes result. The post says Altman confirmed the model will be released soon.
The quote in the post reads: It was 10,000 agents of the model that is going to be released soon, the next GPT, working for about four days, nonstop, collaborating with each other perfectly. This is secondhand: the quote comes from prinz's transcription of a linked clip, and the post does not say where or when Altman spoke. The quote does not give a name, a date or what soon means.
The background matters. In September OpenAI announced that agents running a model beyond GPT 6 Astra produced a proof showing singular behaviour in the Navier Stokes equations under a smooth but extreme external force, and released a formal Lean verification. Some mathematicians praised the work, including PDE expert Scott Armstrong, as covered in the Oct 25 deck, while critics argued the setup sidesteps the physical version of the problem. OpenAI did not claim the Millennium Prize.
What is new is the link to a product. Until now the math work was described as coming from an internal model. If Altman's words are accurate, the same model will ship as the next GPT, and the result shows OpenAI running it at very large scale with thousands of cooperating agents over days. A public release would let outsiders test how much of that ability holds without OpenAI's internal setup.
What to expect next
Watch for OpenAI to name and date the next GPT, and for whether it ships with the multi agent tools used in the math work. Independent tests of long research tasks will show how much of the Navier Stokes ability carries over. The original clip and its venue should also become clearer as more outlets pick up the quote. Mathematicians are still checking the proof, so their verdict will shape how much weight the claim carries.