OpenAI announced it solved a legendary Millennium Prize problem in mathematics involving Navier-Stokes, demonstrating rapid AI transformation in mathematics…
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OpenAI’s $1 million Navier-Stokes breakthrough has turned into a serious AI research controversy. NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic researcher Levent Alpöge were working on closely related mathematical problems when, according to Buckmaster, OpenAI researcher Sébastien Bubeck told him an internal OpenAI model had produced a ~100-page proof of the actual Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem. Then came the allegations: • Dispute over who got there first • Buckmaster says he was pressured to remove Alpöge from credit • Questions over unpublished research stored in OpenAI Codex • Concerns about whether AI training data could have influenced the work • OpenAI denies accessing their specific private data The bigger issue goes far beyond Navier-Stokes. If researchers feed unpub
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