Alleged Codex log theft: Tristan accuses OpenAI of stealing math result, dangling $1M Clay Prize
OwariDa · x · 2026-09-08
- The core drama: mathematician Tristan is softly accusing OpenAI of having stolen his team's result from Codex chat logs.
- Tristan claims OpenAI tried to threaten him into not publicly disclosing this.
- He alleges OpenAI offered him the $1M Clay Prize as the "closest humans to the problem"—on the condition he disavow his co-author @alpoge, who is at Anthropic.
- Commentators call it "HBO-level drama, but with math proofs."
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