OpenAI accused of pushing prof to cut Anthropic co-researcher from $1M Millennium Prize deal
james_mtc · x · 2026-09-09
Gergely Orosz weighs in on the OpenAI Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize controversy: a professor was allegedly pushed to publish their breakthrough with OpenAI for a cut of the $1M prize, on the condition they remove a co-researcher who works at Anthropic — something he calls ethically questionable. Simon Willison adds a writeup arguing the saga highlights how murky the meaning of using data "to improve model performance" still is.
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