OpenAI Proof-Credit Drama: Lead-Authorship Offer and Anthropic Rivalry Revealed

IgorCarron · x · 2026-09-09

Drama around OpenAI's Millennium Problem proof: quoted posts reveal OpenAI offered mathematician Tristan lead authorship on a rewrite, but not Anthropic employee Levent, citing rumors that Anthropic's models had also cracked a Millennium Problem. An OpenAI researcher admitted it was an "extremely poor choice of words," though the poster remains unconvinced.

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