Timeline: the four days OpenAI claimed a Millennium Prize as mathematicians alleged proof scoop
ivan_bezdomny · x · 2026-09-12
A four-day timeline reconstructed from 200+ posts covering OpenAI's Navier-Stokes Millennium Prize claim: NYU's Tristan Buckmaster and Anthropic's Levent Alpoge announced major independent progress with Claude and Codex help, and Buckmaster alleged OpenAI claimed an internal model completed the final proof step, pressed him to publish without Alpoge, and faced questions over whether it trained on private Codex sessions — all unfolding alongside a parallel AI-safety storm.
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