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Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem (Kenneth Chang/New York Times)
Kenneth Chang / New York Times: Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem — Trist
Kenneth Chang / New York Times: Interview with mathematician Tristan Buckmaster on being drawn into the OpenAI-Anthropic fight; OpenAI says it made progress on another Millennium Prize problem — Tristan Buckmaster was on the path toward an important proof when one of the A.I. giants used its staggering resources to get there first.
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- OpenAI denies that its researchers or models saw Buckmaster and Alpöge's prompts and says it spent millions in compute after rumors of Anthropic making progress (Wired)
- Mathematician Tristan Buckmaster alleges OpenAI learned of his work with Anthropic's Levent Alpöge on Navier-Stokes and then used an internal model to solve it (Joseph Howlett/Scientific American)
- OpenAI says an internal model 'significantly more capable than GPT-6 Astra' solved the Navier-Stokes problem using 10K concurrent agents working for 88 hours (Madison Mills/Axios)
Source: Techmeme | 2026-09-10