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Mathematician alleges OpenAI accessed his Codex sessions to beat him to solving Navier-Stokes
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Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on the Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize problem and used an internal model to solve it first.
If the allegation holds, it means a platform hosting sensitive research data was used as competitive intelligence by its owner, collapsing the boundary between tool provider and rival. Anyone using closed AI tools for proprietary work would need to reconsider what they entrust to those platforms.
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Buckmaster and Alpöge were working on Navier-Stokes, one of the seven Millennium Prize problems considered among the hardest open problems in mathematics.
The allegation includes that OpenAI may have accessed Buckmaster's private sessions stored in Codex to learn of and preempt their work.
Sebastien Bubeck, identified in the discussion, has publicly called the allegations 'false and inflammatory' and stated he followed academic norms.
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