DeepMind won CASP14 and a Nobel; OpenAI's math AI bid gets pushback
dhruv2038 · x · 2026-09-11
A viral post highlights a double standard: Google DeepMind's black-box solution won the CASP14 protein folding competition and earned Hassabis and Jumper a Chemistry Nobel, yet OpenAI submitting a black-box approach to the Navier-Stokes millennium problem caused an uproar among mathematicians — the backdrop to OpenAI withdrawing its Caltech Mathathon sponsorship.
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