Gary Marcus: OpenAI's Millennium Prize attribution fight is a short-term game of desperation and IPO greed
GaryMarcus · x · 2026-09-09
Gary Marcus argues OpenAI bullied mathematicians Alpöge and Buckmaster instead of collaborating on the Millennium Prize problem, and obfuscated with 'we didn't use the data directly.' He calls it a short-term game of desperation and IPO greed that will erode trust, while antonio notes collaborative math is the standard and researchers will avoid OpenAI's environments.
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