OpenAI accused of appropriating mathematicians' Navier-Stokes research direction before publication
Jsevillamol · x · 2026-09-08
A thread lays out the backstory of the OpenAI–Tristan/Levent Navier-Stokes credit dispute: T&L had produced a finite blowup example for Euler equations believed extensible to Navier-Stokes, and discussed it with Sebastian Bubeck at OpenAI, who claimed OpenAI already had a full counterexample. Insinuation #1a: OpenAI admitted starting its own effort only after learning of T&L's approach, suggesting it appropriated the research direction before it was public.
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