SMRTR AISep 8, 2026Reddit

OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician

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NYU mathematician Tristan Buckmaster announced major progress on the Navier-Stokes problem, one of mathematics' seven Millennium Prize challenges worth $1 million. Before his work went public, OpenAI reportedly used knowledge of his approach to race ahead with its own full proof, spending $22.5 million in computing resources. OpenAI allegedly pressured Buckmaster to remove a collaborator's credit and warned him against going public with the dispute.

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