OpenAI creates math advisory group as its AI solves 100 problems

On September 21, 2026, OpenAI announced an independent advisory panel called the Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. The group will be based at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, and aims to give researchers greater input into the company's work in mathematics.

The move followed the unexpected publication of a solution to the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. Alongside the launch of the advisory group, OpenAI said an internal model resolved more than 100 other open mathematical problems across most fields of the discipline.

The speed of the releases had prompted pushback. Earlier in September 2026, 25 Fields Medal winners signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence labs were threatening academic research in their race to solve landmark problems.

Nine mathematicians make up the initial advisory group, including Camillo De Lellis from the Institute for Advanced Study, who was the only member to also sign the Fields Medalists' letter. The members will serve without pay, control their own membership, and retain the right to speak publicly or provide unsolicited views. However, OpenAI stated that the panel will not advise on the pace of research, and the institute confirmed it holds no decision-making power over the company.