A dispute over one of the most celebrated unsolved problems in mathematics erupted on Tuesday after NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster published a statement accusing OpenAI of rushing to claim credit for work that built on his own research — and…
Buckmaster and Anthropic employee Levent Alpöge published AI-assisted proofs showing fluid equations related to Navier-Stokes can develop singularities, a key Millennium Prize step.newscientist+1
Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of their methods and rapidly produced its own proof, then pressured him to exclude Alpöge from authorship due to his Anthropic ties.scientificamerican+1
OpenAI's Sébastien Bubeck called the allegations "false and inflammatory"; the company's claimed full Navier-Stokes proof has not been publicly verified.scientificamerican