OpenAI and mathematicians clash over Navier‑Stokes solution
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OpenAI said its models solved the Navier‑Stokes problem, a Clay Millennium Prize question, but a public dispute erupted after NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster accused the company of racing to a solution after learning of his and Levent Alpöge’s unpublished work on related Euler equations. Buckmaster and Alpöge had used Anthropic and OpenAI models and credited earlier work by Córdoba and Martínez‑Zoroa. OpenAI denies using their drafts and said an investigation found Buckmaster’s Codex prompts could not have influenced training; it also reported using 10,000 agents for 88 hours. The Clay Mathematics Institute will review the claim, and leaders in mathematics warned of risks to open science.
OpenAI announced a Navier‑Stokes solution amid authorship and data concerns
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Researchers released new partial results on the Euler equations just before OpenAI's claim. OpenAI then announced a Navier‑Stokes solution and denied using those drafts. The Clay Mathematics Institute will review the claim and the…
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