OpenAI's math breakthrough sparks drama: NYU mathematician reportedly pressured to drop Anthropic collaborator
ziv_ravid · x · 2026-09-09
A Hebrew Twitter thread recounts the gossip (unverified) around OpenAI's announced solution to a Millennium-type math problem: OpenAI allegedly threw massive compute and agents at several problems after hearing Anthropic was close; an NYU mathematician then surfaced, saying he and an Anthropic mathematician had long worked on a near-identical problem using Codex. He reportedly asked whether OpenAI trained on his logs, got no answer, and was offered credit for the discovery only if he dropped his Anthropic collaborator. He refused and was allegedly told he was ruining his career. OpenAI has published its proof regardless.
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