OpenAI wanted to see if its agents could solve a long unsettled math problem. After gobbling billions of tokens, it found a solution.

OpenAI said Tuesday that one of its unreleased artificial intelligence models had solved a mathematical puzzle that has eluded mathematicians for generations, a claim that also drew a fight with rival researchers over credit.

For decades, researchers wondered if the Navier-Stokes equations, which describe fluid flow, break down. OpenAI put thousands of agents on the question.

UCLA professor and mathematician Terence Tao has sounded the alarm over the accelerating AI race in math happening right now.