Thom Wolf slams OpenAI's handling of mathematicians' AI-assisted math breakthrough
birchlse · x · 2026-09-08
Thom Wolf (co-author of the transformer paper) weighs in on the OpenAI/Navier-Stokes controversy, calling it "a wtf way to handle mathematicians' work and scientific communication."
His TLDR: Leven and Tristan worked for months with various AIs on a Millennium Prize Problem and reached interesting final results. OpenAI reportedly heard about it days later, prompted its latest models along the fruitful direction the pair found, then tried to control communication of the result and pressure to drop Leven from authorship. Wolf worries this is a glimpse of a future where dominant players' marketing games harm the real scientific community. Claims are one-sided and unverified.
Related event: Critics slam OpenAI over Navier-Stokes credit dispute(3 posts)→
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