OpenAI has just crossed a boundary that until very recently seemed impossible. But the most unsettling thing isn't what it has solved. It's what might come next.


🎤 Script and narration: Eduardo Rodríguez (journalist)
🎬 Editing: David Cardona

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01:44 Chapter 1: Heroes
10:07 Chapter 2: The Race
16:15 Chapter 3: New Frontier
24:08 Eye on the Patch: Masters of Fire
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SOURCES AND READINGS USED IN THIS DOCUMENTARY

Clay Mathematics Institute — The Millennium Prize Problems. Statement and official framework of the seven Millennium Prize Problems. Clay Mathematics Institute — Millennium Prize Problems
Clay Mathematics Institute — Navier-Stokes Announcement, September 11, 2026. Clay's first official assessment following the OpenAI announcement. Clay — Navier-Stokes Announcement
Clay Mathematics Institute — Poincaré Conjecture. Official information on Perelman's solution and its relationship to Richard Hamilton's work. Clay — Poincaré Conjecture
OpenAI — On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem, September 8, 2026, updated September 10. Description of the result, methodology, background, and response to the controversy surrounding Buckmaster's data. OpenAI — Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
Konstantin Kakaes / Quanta Magazine — “AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems,” September 8, 2026. Especially useful for reconstructing the background of Córdoba and Martínez-Zoroa and the chronology of the discovery. Quanta Magazine — AI Has Solved One of Math’s $1 Million Millennium Prize Problems
Tristan Buckmaster — statement regarding his work with Levent Alpöge and the conversations with OpenAI, September 2026. Primary source of their version of the dispute. Full statement by Tristan Buckmaster
Sébastien Bubeck — response to Buckmaster's accusations. Primary source of the OpenAI/Bubeck version of those conversations. Response by Sébastien Bubeck
Diego Córdoba, Luis Martínez-Zoroa, and Fan Zheng — pioneering research on Euler and Navier–Stokes. Among them, Finite time singularities to the 3D incompressible Euler equations and Finite time blow-up for the hypodissipative Navier-Stokes equations... Córdoba, Martínez-Zoroa, and Zheng — Euler, 2023 · Córdoba, Martínez-Zoroa, and Zheng — Navier-Stokes, 2024
“A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics,” September 11, 2026. Declaration initially signed by 25 Fields Medalists and other mathematicians on AI, attribution, understanding, and scientific practice. A Severe Misalignment of AI in Mathematics — Spanish version
OpenAI — Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, September 21, 2026. OpenAI states here that its internal model has solved more than 100 long-running open problems. OpenAI — Advisory Group on Mathematics and AI
Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence. Independent group created to advise on the responsible review and publication of mathematical results produced by AI. Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence
Scott Aaronson — “The Age of Wonders and Terrors”, September 15, 2026. Reflection on Navier-Stokes, scaling in mathematics, and rumors about unpublished results. Scott Aaronson — The Age of Wonders and Terrors
Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information — “OpenAI Is Close To Solving Another Millennium Prize Math Problem”, September 17, 2026. Information on OpenAI's progress on the Hodge Conjecture. The Information — OpenAI Is Close To Solving Another Millennium Prize Math Problem
Andrew Critch and Jacob Tsimerman — “A Taxonomy of Omnicidal Futures Involving Artificial Intelligence”, 2025. Work on extreme risk scenarios associated with advanced AI systems. Critch and Tsimerman — full paper
International Mathematical Union — Fields Medals 2026. Official information on Jacob Tsimerman and the other laureates. IMU — Fields Medals 2026
OpenAI and Anthropic — reports on unexpected behavior and agent security. OpenAI — Framework for reporting model misalignment. Anthropic — Alignment assessment of recent cybersecurity incidents.
Dario Amodei — “We Must Pace the Frontier,” September 2026. Reflection by the CEO of Anthropic on the race between labs, loss of control, and the need to slow the pace. Dario Amodei — We Must Pace the Frontier