Is OpenAI Taking Everyone for Fools?
OpenAI faces accusations it scooped NYU mathematicians' Navier-Stokes proof, possibly using their data, amid skepticism about GPT-6 Astra claims.
NYU mathematicians Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge published solutions to decades-old blowup problems for incompressible Euler, Boussinesq, and porous media equations on the same day OpenAI claimed its internal model solved the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem. OpenAI admitted its effort began September 1st after hearing a related rumor and said it cannot rule out that de-identified data from the researchers' use of its products, such as private Codex sessions, helped improve its models. The column questions OpenAI's transparency, noting the company had just released GPT-6 Astra with claims including that AGI has been achieved, following recent controversies over its agent hacking Hugging Face and a German wiki site.
- Buckmaster and Alpöge published three decades-old blowup results; OpenAI released a similar Navier-Stokes proof the same day.
- OpenAI says its effort began September 1st after hearing a rumor tied to the researchers' work.
- OpenAI cannot rule out that de-identified data from the researchers' product usage informed its models.
- Claims arrive alongside the GPT-6 Astra release and Sam Altman's AGI announcement.
- Recent incidents, including OpenAI's agent hacking Hugging Face, have dented the company's credibility.
- Products
- OpenAI CodexGPT-6
- Victims
- Hugging FaceGerman wiki site
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OpenAI claims to have solved a decades old mathematical problem just as researchers are about to publish their solution. Coincidence? On the same day two academic researchers publish their findings to a mathematical problem, OpenAI claims to have used their AI model to come to a very similar conclusion.
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