Sam Altman Responds to Navier-Stokes Feud: OpenAI Offered Rival Team to Publish First
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-09
- Sam Altman laid out OpenAI's side of the Navier-Stokes priority dispute, praising the rival team's integrity.
- He says OpenAI initially believed both teams had solved the problem and proposed a joint release; on learning the rivals had only Euler, OpenAI offered to let them publish first and take the prize, with Tristan as lead author on a rewrite of OpenAI's proof.
- He claims the same offer wasn't feasible for Anthropic employee Levent, who refused to coordinate. The he-said-she-said continues, with the community joking about an Anthropic room-temperature superconductor rumor.
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