Speculation: OpenAI Rushed Navier-Stokes Release to Beat an Anthropic Researcher's Work

BlancheMinerva · x · 2026-09-09

A skeptical take on OpenAI's Navier-Stokes announcement: while the specific chats were probably not used, the author speculates OpenAI likely learned of promising work involving an Anthropic staff member and rushed the full result out first. Related thread context: earlier allegations about model Phi's behavior failed to replicate when the author ran the shown prompts.

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