RL scholar Csaba Szepesvari joins criticism that OpenAI rushed a result to beat Anthropic

CsabaSzepesvari · x · 2026-09-09

Reinforcement learning researcher Csaba Szepesvari amplified criticism that OpenAI's announcement of a solution (pursued based on rumors) was driven by racing Anthropic rather than empowering mathematicians. The analogy: a senior professor with massive compute shouldn't scoop someone else's work announced at a workshop — legitimate as competition, indefensible as science.

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