🤖 AI just cracked a $1M math problem. Also: the drama is massive.
A mathematician spent a year using Anthropic's models to build a Navier-Stokes counterexample. Before he could publish, rumors of his method apparently reached OpenAI. Their model then finished it in a single prompt.
Now there are allegations of scooping, a pressure campaign to drop the Anthropic co-author, and a proof that OpenAI hasn't actually shown anyone yet.
The math might be real. The vibes are not great.
Scientific American
AI may have just solved a million-dollar math problem. The field will never be the same
A mathematician compared the feat to the history-making chess competition in which IBM’s Deep Blue computer beat Garry Kasparov in 1997
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