OpenAI researcher allegedly pressured mathematician to drop Anthropic co-author from math breakthrough paper. According to Buckmaster, OpenAI claimed an internal model had produced a roughly 100-page proof for the Navier-Stokes equations using an unusual approach.
Buckmaster and Alpöge had uploaded all their drafts to Codex throughout the project. Bubeck twice asserted he wanted Alpöge removed from authorship because he works at Anthropic, Buckmaster says. When Buckmaster refused, Bubeck allegedly asked: "Why would you ruin your career?"
OpenAI developer Noam Brown points to a familiar pattern. When OpenAI launched o3, hitting 87.5 percent on the ARC-AGI benchmark cost about $500,000. Today, Astra can do more for roughly $20.
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"I believe that a year from now everyone will have an AI at their fingertips capable of solving problems of this caliber," Brown writes. OpenAI rejects Buckmaster's allegations In a press briefing, the company pushed back against Buckmaster's allegations.
"We, whether it’s the researchers or the agents, did not see any of their work until it was released publicly last night," Bubeck said, according to WIRED.
He wanted to "be extremely clear" that OpenAI recognizes the priority of Alpöge and Buckmaster's work and congratulates them on their "monumental achievement." OpenAI mathematician Ven Chandrasekaran said the company's solution differs fundamentally from the approach Buckmaster and Alpöge took.
OpenAI did not say whether their data was used, and Buckmaster hasn't seen OpenAI's proof. The company has not yet responded to the allegations.
Source: thedecoder
