OpenAI announced the creation of an independent mathematics and artificial intelligence advisory group hosted by the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. According to ChainCatcher, the company said a new internal model it began training on August 28 has solved the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize Problem and more than 100 long-unresolved open problems across major areas of mathematics.

The group will advise on reviewing and sharing emerging results, academic and professional standards in mathematical research, and how OpenAI tools can support mathematics research and learning. Its initial members include François Charles, Camillo De Lellis, Timothy Gowers, Martin Hairer, Nikhil Srivastava, Ulrike Tillmann, Ravi Vakil, Edward Witten, and Melanie Matchett Wood.

OpenAI said the group will operate independently, with members unpaid by the company and able to offer advice, comment publicly on its impact on mathematics, and issue recommendations on their own initiative. The announcement comes after mathematicians raised concerns in an open letter titled A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics about using solved open problems as an AI benchmark. The group will not advise OpenAI on the pace of its internal mathematics progress.