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Will Anthropic announce a claimed solution to Navier–Stokes before the end of 2026?

As of Oct 20, 2026, 1:54 PM ET, Manifold priced this market at 3.7% (little changed over 24 hours). It had 100 mana of pool liquidity.

Market probability
3.7%
Little changed over 24 hours
Limited dataNot live — snapshot Oct 20, 1:54 PM ET

Play-money market (mana, not dollars) — the venue's feed doesn't report liquidity for this market, traded by a small group of accounts.

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Move validity

Insufficient data

Consensus stability

Stable

Contract clarity

High

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Market capacity

How hard is it to move this price?

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Pool liquidity

100 mana

Bid-ask spread

n/a

automated market maker

24h volume

0 mana

Total volume

831.2 mana

Play money: depth is in mana, so it says nothing about real-money conviction.

Who's trading

Whose opinion is this price?

A few accounts
32%of the traded money came from the single largest account

Accounts

23

Trades

69

over 32 days

Largest order

250 mana

1.3K mana traded across these 69 trades (last 32 days).

A small group of accounts did most of the trading — neither one whale nor a broad crowd.

Recent trade activity$1.3K traded

From the latest trade tape (most recent 200 prints) — a live activity sample, not a lifetime total.

What this market actually measures

The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems, and as of 2026, the only Millennium Prize problem to have been solved is the Poincaré conjecture. This market asks whether Anthropic will publicly claim that one of its AI systems has resolved it.

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The Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem is one of the seven Clay Millennium Prize Problems, and as of 2026, the only Millennium Prize problem to have been solved is the Poincaré conjecture. This market asks whether Anthropic will publicly claim that one of its AI systems has resolved it. Resolves YES if: before 11:59 PM ET December 31, 2026, Anthropic publicly announces — or a preprint with Anthropic-affiliated authors or Anthropic’s official endorsement presents — a claimed complete resolution of the Clay Mathematics Institute’s Navier–Stokes existence and smoothness problem, with Claude or another Anthropic AI system credited as the primary source of the proof. Terms: • Either direction counts. A claimed proof of global existence and smoothness, OR a claimed counterexample (finite-time blow-up from smooth, finite-energy initial data), in either the R³ or periodic setting as specified in Clay’s official problem statement. Both resolve the Millennium problem and both count. • Must be a claim of full resolution. Partial or conditional progress does NOT count: blow-up for modified, hyperdissipative, or averaged Navier–Stokes; Euler blow-up; results under additional assumptions; “substantial progress toward”; or numerical evidence without a claimed proof. • AI as primary prover. Claude must be credited as having produced the proof or its central argument. A human-authored proof that used Claude as an assistant does not count. Resolver judgment on this element, stated in advance: if Anthropic’s own announcement describes the result as Claude’s, that suffices. • Announcement, not verification. Resolves YES on announcement regardless of whether the proof is later found flawed. Peer review, expert acceptance, and Clay recognition are not required. • Anthropic only. A Navier–Stokes claim from Google DeepMind, OpenAI, or any other lab does not count. Anthropic claiming a different Millennium problem does not count. • Post-creation only. No pre-creation statement satisfies these criteria; as of creation, no such announcement exists. • Resolution by the primary announcement or preprint, linked in the comments.

What could move this market next?

  • The market's deadline arrivesDecember 31, 2026 at 6:59 PM ET

    The contract must resolve based on what has happened by this date.

Derived from the contract's own mechanics as of Oct 20, 3:40 PM ET. ProbCast does not list scheduled meetings, announcements, or data releases it cannot verify.

Advanced analysis (experimental)

Research signals — these models are still accumulating the history needed for full validation, and they can disagree with the headline read. Model confidence: low · expected error ±21 pts.

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What's happening

low classifier confidence
Thin market

Thin book and/or wide spread. Small orders can move this price disproportionately, so any single print is noisy and easily overread.

  • Low liquidity score (39)

Read with caution —Read the latest price with caution; conditions make it an unreliable summary right now.

More details — reliability score, dynamics, durability
Reliability score
11Low
Where the price path tends to go next618 observed
  • Illiquid / quiet97%
  • Choppy / mean-reverting2%
  • Thin-liquidity spike1%

Short-term motion of the price line (~1h), distinct from the environment above — not a prediction of the final outcome.

DurabilityHigh· half-life —
PredictabilityStable

Secondary read: leaning toward Stale price.

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Change (pts)1H0.06H0.024H0.07D0.0

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