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OpenAI: no researcher or model saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts; millions in compute spent after Anthropic breakthrough
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OpenAI has denied that its researchers or models saw the prompts of mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge, and says it spent millions in compute after learning of an Anthropic breakthrough.
This dispute raises concerns about the privacy of developer sessions in AI coding tools, since the allegations involve prompts stored in Codex. It also underscores the competitive pressure between frontier AI labs, where a breakthrough can trigger massive compute spending. Engineers should note that even if the denial holds, the incident shows how sensitive research data can become entangled with AI model training and inference.
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OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster or Alpöge's prompts.
OpenAI says it spent millions in compute after hearing Anthropic had a breakthrough.
Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and used an internal model to solve it.
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