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What are Millennium Problems?
These are seven incredibly difficult maths problems, chosen in 2000 by the Clay Mathematics Institute. Solving each one earns a million-dollar prize and immense prestige. So far, only one has been officially solved by a human. OpenAI's claims about the Hodge conjecture and Navier-Stokes equations suggest AI might be cracking these long-standing puzzles, which is a huge deal.
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