🧮 OpenAI's $1M math win has a credibility problem
OpenAI claims its agents cracked the Navier-Stokes problem, a 90-year-old Millennium Prize puzzle. NYU's Tristan Buckmaster says Sébastien Bubeck knew about his unpublished work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge before racing to announce it. If true this isn't a research breakthrough story, it's a priority-theft story wearing an AI costume.
Everyone wants the first "AI solved a Millennium Problem" headline more than they want the truth about who actually solved it.
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