Gary Marcus: OpenAI's Millennium Prize response is desperation and 'IPO greed'
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-09
Gary Marcus criticizes OpenAI's handling of the Millennium Prize controversy as a short-term game signaling desperation and/or IPO greed: instead of collaborating with Alpöge and Buckmaster, OpenAI 'bullied' and set the stage for a war; instead of being straight, it obfuscated — 'we didn't use the data directly.' He argues OpenAI wants the attribution but the cloud won't go away and few will trust them going forward.
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